TAMARINS
TAMARINS
The tamarin genera, Saguinus and Tamarinus, the lion tamarin genus, Leontopithecus, and the saddleback tamarins, Leontocebus, include at least forty-five species and twenty subspecies.
TAMARINS
Genus: Saguinus
Saguinus niger
CONSERVATION STATUS: VULNERABLE
Black-handed tamarins, also known as Western black-handed tamarins or black tamarins, are neotropical primates that live primarily in Pará, Brazil. Their home is bordered in three directions by rivers: the Amazon river in the north, the Tocantins River in the east, the Xingu river in the West. In the past, it was believed that the…
Saguinus oedipus
CONSERVATION STATUS: CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
Also called cotton-headed tamarin, cotton-top tamarins are only found in a small part of northwestern Colombia. Historically, they were more widespread across Colombian forests. However, today their geographic distribution is limited to the area between the Magdalena and Artato rivers in the east and west and the…
Saguinus geoffroyi
CONSERVATION STATUS: NEAR THREATENED
The Geoffroy’s tamarin, also known as the Panamanian red-crested or rufous-naped tamarin, is a small monkey found between eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia. These Latin American primates live in both dry and wet climates, spanning across their geographical range. Their easternmost boundary is…
Saguinus bicolor
CONSERVATION STATUS: CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
The pied tamarin, also known as the Brazilian bare-faced tamarin or pied bare-faced tamarin, has one of the smallest ranges of any primate in the world, located in and around the Amazonian port city of Manaus. Pied tamarins thrive best in the continuous old-growth forest that once flourished here. But many are currently…
Saguinus midas
CONSERVATION STATUS: LEAST CONCERN
Also known as golden-handed tamarins, Midas tamarins, and yellow-handed tamarins, red-handed tamarins are found across a large area of northeastern South America. They are endemic to Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, and found in Brazil, north of the Rio Amazonas and east of the Rios Negro. Red-handed…
TAMARINS
Genus: Tamarinus
Tamarinus mystax
CONSERVATION STATUS: LEAST CONCERN
Moustached tamarins, also called Spyx’s moustached tamarins and black-chested mustached tamarins, are native to Brazil and Peru, where they are found in all layers of the Amazonian lowland rainforest, with the exception of flooded forests. They can persist in disturbed forests close to human settlements. There...
Tamarinus labiatus
CONSERVATION STATUS: LEAST CONCERN
The red-chested mustached tamarin, also known as the red-bellied tamarin and the white-lipped tamarin, makes its home in the middle canopy of trees predominantly in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil and connecting regions of Peru and Bolivia. Some populations also have been found living north of the Amazon basin in Brazil. In the…
Tamarinus imperator
CONSERVATION STATUS: LEAST CONCERN
Emperor tamarins, who go by the nickname “mustache monkeys,” are native to South America. They reside just south of the equator within the southwestern Amazon River Basin in eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and the northwestern Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas. Populations are geographically distributed…
Tamarinus inustus
CONSERVATION STATUS: LEAST CONCERN
The mottled-face tamarin (or mottle-face tamarin) is found in Brazil and Colombia. They occur in a variety of habitats between the two countries, including lowland forests, flooded forests, dry terra firma forests, and the unique white sand ecosystems known as Campina and Campinarana. Both differ from other…
LION TAMARINS
Genus: Leontopithecus
Leontopithecus caissara
CONSERVATION STATUS: ENDANGERED
Black-faced lion tamarins belong to the primate family known as Callitrichidae. They are native to Brazil, where two primary populations occupy two separate regions in Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest. One population resides on the island of Superagui along the northeast coast of Paraná state. Formerly a peninsula, this artificial island was…
Leontopithecus chrysopygus
CONSERVATION STATUS: ENDANGERED
The black lion tamarin, also known as the golden-rumped lion tamarin, is endemic to a small area of southern Brazil. Living exclusively in the Atlantic Forest in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, its range has been restricted in recent years due to human alteration of its habitat. Black lion tamarins are limited to just 15 isolated forest patches covering just 190 square miles (490 square km). Unlike its close…
Leontopithecus chrysomelas
CONSERVATION STATUS: ENDANGERED
Golden-headed lion tamarins—also called golden-headed tamarins and not to be confused with the closely related golden lion tamarins—are endemic to the Atlantic Forest of coastal Brazil. Their preferred habitat is evergreen broadleaf tropical forests and semi-deciduous forests, and they live 10–33 feet (3–10 m) up in trees…
Leontopithecus rosalia
CONSERVATION STATUS: ENDANGERED
The Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil is home to the golden lion tamarin. Once found throughout the lowland coastal regions of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo, centuries of deforestation and encroaching urban development have wiped out 98 percent of their original habitat—nearly causing the golden lion…
SADDLEBACK TAMARINS
Genus: Leontocebus
Leontocebus nigricollis
CONSERVATION STATUS: LEAST CONCERN
The black-mantled tamarin, also known as the Hernández-Camacho’s black-mantle tamarin, ranges in distribution from the northwestern Amazon rainforest in far western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, northeastern Peru, and eastern Ecuador. Within this vast range, the species inhabits Amazonian lowland and seasonally….
Leontocebus fuscicollis
CONSERVATION STATUS: LEAST CONCERN
The saddleback tamarin, also known as the Andean saddle-back tamarin (and previously referred to as the brown-mantled tamarin), is a species of New World monkey whose geographic distribution includes the South American countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. These small primates make their…
Leontocebus weddelli
CONSERVATION STATUS: LEAST CONCERN
The Weddell’s saddle-back tamarin is a species of New World monkey whose range overlaps the South American countries of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. These highly adaptable tamarins live in the Amazon’s southwestern basin, exploiting the lowland, primary, and secondary rainforests growing there. During the last century, the…