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--> GENUS Saguinus
SPECIES Saguinus niger
Author: | É. Geoffroy, 1803. | Citation: | Cat. Mamm. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris: 13. | Common Name: | Black Tamarin | Type Locality: | Brazil: Belem. | Distribution: | Brazil, south of the Amazon, east of the Rio Xingu, including Marajo Isl. | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Least Concern. | Comments: | S. midas species group. Formerly called tamarin, but this is a synonym of S. midas: see Hershkovitz (1977:711). Separated from S. midas by Natori and Hanihara (1988). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
gracilis (G. Fischer, 1813) umbratus (Thomas, 1922) ursula Hoffmannsegg, 1807
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