Illiger's saddle-back tamarin (''Leontocebus illigeri'') is a species of

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

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

subspecies In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog ...

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 Omnivore, ...

, ''L. fuscicollis''. It is closely related to the

Andean saddle-back tamarin The Andean saddle-back tamarin (''Leontocebus leucogenys'') is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. The Andean saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, '' ...

. It is endemic to the

Peruvian Amazon Peruvian Amazonia (), informally known locally as the Peruvian jungle () or just the jungle (), is the area of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, east of the Andes and Peru's borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia. Peru has the second-l ...

and its type locality is in Loreto, Peru, at the left bank of the lower Rio Ucayali. Illiger's saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between and with a tail length between and long. Males weigh about and females weight about . The

IUCN The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Founded in 1948, IUCN has become the global authority on the status ...

rates it as

near threatened A near-threatened species is a species which has been Conservation status, categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to Endangered species, endangerment in the ne ...

from a conservation standpoint.

References

Leontocebus Taxa named by Jacques Pucheran Mammals described in 1845 {{newworld-monkey-stub