Mottle-faced tamarin
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The mottle-faced tamarin (''Saguinus inustus'') is a
species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
tamarin The tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus ''Saguinus''. They are the first offshoot in the Callitrichidae tree, and therefore are the sister group of a clade formed by the lion tamarins, Goe ...
from
South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
. It is found in
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
and Colombia.


Interaction With Humans

Mottle-faced tamarins are not hunted by locals, due to their "small size" and instead some are even kept as pets.


References

mottle-faced tamarin Primates of Brazil Mammals of Colombia Taxa named by Ernst Schwarz mottle-faced tamarin {{newworld-monkey-stub