Andean Saddle-back Tamarin

Leontocebus leucogenys

Classification

Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Callitrichidae

The Andean saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus leucogenys) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. The Andean saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis.

Distribution

Andean Saddle-back Tamarin — (c) Fábio Olmos, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Fábio Olmos · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Peru · 44

Sources and credits

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