Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin

Lesson's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus fuscus) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. Lesson's saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis. Genetic analysis showed it to be more closely related to the black-mantled tamarin than to the brown-mantled tamarin. Its type locality is in Colombia, in Plaines de Mocoa,

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Saguinus illigeri
• Saguinus nigricollis
• Saguinus lagonotus
• Saguinus weddelli
• Saguinus tripartitus
• Saguinus ursula

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Callitrichidae

Genus

Saguinus

Species

Saguinus fuscus

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