Black-mantled tamarin explained

The black-mantled tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis, is a species of saddle-back tamarin from the northwestern Amazon in far western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, north-eastern Peru and eastern Ecuador.^{[1] [2]}

There are 3 subspecies:^{[1] [2]}

• Spix's black mantle tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis nigricollis
• Graells's tamarin or Graells' black-mantle tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis graellsi
• Hernandez-Camacho's black-mantle tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis hernandezi

Graells's tamarin was previously considered to be a separate species.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Rylands, Anthony B. . Eckhard W. Heymann . Jessica Lynch Alfaro . Janet C. Buckner . Christian Roos . Christian Matauschek . Jean P. Boubli . Ricardo Sampaio . Russell A. Mittermeier . 2016 . Taxonomic Review of the New World Tamarins (Primates: Callitrichidae) . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 177 . 4 . 1003–1028 . 10.1111/zoj.12386 . 2020-04-19 . 28 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170128171237/http://socgen.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Rylands-et-al-Review-of-tamarin-taxonomy-J-Zool-Linn-Soc-2016.pdf . dead .
2. Book: All the World's Primates. Porter, Leila M.. Dacier, Anand . Garber, Paul A.. Rowe, Noel . Myers, Marc. 336–337. 2016. Pogonias Press. 9781940496061.
3. Matauschek . Christian . Roos . Christian . Heymann . Eckhard W. . 10.1002/ajpa.21445 . Mitochondrial phylogeny of tamarins (Saguinus, Hoffmannsegg 1807) with taxonomic and biogeographic implications for the S. nigricollis species group . American Journal of Physical Anthropology . 144 . 4 . 564–574 . 2011 . 21404233.
4. Rylands, Mittermeier, Coimbra-Filho, Heymann, de la Torre, Silva Jr., Kierulff, Noronha and Röhe (2008). Marmosets and Tamarins: Pocket Identification Guide. Conservation International.
5. [Thomas Defler|Defler, T.]