Black-mantled tamarin

The black-mantled tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis, is a species of saddle-back tamarin from the northwestern Amazon in far western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, north-eastern Peru and eastern Ecuador.^[4][5]

Black-mantled tamarin[1][2]
Leontocebus nigricollis graellsi, Ecuador
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[3]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Callitrichidae
Genus:	Leontocebus
Species:	L. nigricollis
Binomial name
Leontocebus nigricollis (Spix, 1823)
Range of the Black-mantled Tamarin

There are 3 subspecies:^[4][5]

• Spix's black mantle tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis nigricollis
• Graells's tamarin or Graells' black-mantle tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis graellsi
• Hernandez-Camacho's black-mantle tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis hernandezi

Graells's tamarin was previously considered to be a separate species.^[6][7][8]