Cruz Lima's saddle-back tamarin (''Leontocebus cruzlimai'') is a species of

saddle-back tamarin The saddle-back tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus or subgenus ''Leontocebus''. They were split from the tamarin genus ''Saguinus'' based on genetic data and on the fact that saddle-back ta ...

, a type of small monkey from South America. Cruz Lima's saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

of the

brown-mantled tamarin The brown-mantled tamarin (''Leontocebus fuscicollis''), also known as Spix's saddle-back tamarin, is a species of saddle-back tamarin. This New World monkey is found in the Southern American countries of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. This omnivorous ...

, ''L. fuscicollis''. It lives in Brazil in the area near the

Inauini River Inauini River ( pt, Rio Inauini) is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil, a tributary of the Purus River. The Inauini River forms the boundary between the Mapiá-Inauini National Forest and the Purus National Forest The Purus Natio ...

. Its fur is mostly reddish orange, with a black tail and white eyebrows. The

IUCN The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ...

rates it as

least concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...

from a conservation standpoint.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q25384553 Leontocebus Primates of South America Taxa named by Philip Hershkovitz Mammals described in 1966