White-mantled tamarin

The white-mantled tamarin, Leontocebus weddelli melanoleucus, is a subspecies of Weddell's saddle-back tamarin, a tamarin monkey from South America. It is found in Brazil, between Rio Jurua and Rio Tarauacá.

White-mantled tamarin
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Leontocebus
Species:
Subspecies:
L. w. melanoleucus
Trinomial name
Leontocebus weddelli melanoleucus
Ribeiro, 1912
White-mantled tamarin range
Synonyms
  • acrensis (Carvalho, 1957)
  • hololeucus (Pinto, 1937)
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