Saguinus niger

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Western Black-handed Tamarin

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Platyrrhini
Family : Callitrichidae
Genus : Saguinus
Subgenus : Saguinus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1803. Catalogue des Mammifères du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Privately published, Paris, 272 pp.

Original name as described

Sagouin niger

Other common names

Black Tamarin

Type material

AMNH M-96500

Type kind

neotype

Type locality

Cayenne [French Guiana]. Restricted by P. Hershkovitz in 1977 to Belém, Pará State, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

previously included S. ursula

Taxonomy notes citation

Gregorin, R., De Vivo, M. 2013. Revalidation of Sanguinus ursula Hoffmannsegg (Primates: Cebidae: Callitrichinae). Zootaxa 3721(2): 172-182. · Lopes, G. P., Rohe, F., Bertuol, F., Polo, É., Valsecchi, J., Santos, T. C. M., ... & Hrbek, T. (2023). Molecular systematics of tamarins with emphasis on genus Tamarinus (Primates, Callitrichidae). Zoologica Scripta, 52(6), 556-570.

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

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