Red shoulder tamarin
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Red shoulder tamarin ( Leontocebus lagonotus ) |
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The red shoulder tamarin ( Leontocebus lagonotus , Syn . : Saguinus lagonotus ) is a species from the marmoset family (Callitrichidae) that occurs in the western Amazon basin . The distribution area is between Río Napo and Río Marañón in the Ecuadorian Oriente and in northeastern Peru .
features
The red shoulder tamarin reaches a head-trunk length of 22 cm (females) to 24 (males), has a 30 to 32 cm long tail and a weight of 350 to 400 g. The head is almost completely black, only the region around the mouth, nose and around the eyes is sparsely covered with short, gray hair. The shoulders and the outside of the limbs are reddish to mahogany in color, the chest and the inside of the limbs are washed out reddish-black or completely black. The back is striped black and yellow-brown. The tops of the feet and hands are black. With the exception of the reddish base, the tail is black. Externally visible hairless skin, e.g. B. on the face or genitals is black.
habitat
The red shoulder tamarin lives in the primary and secondary lowland rainforests, preferring dense secondary forests. It feeds on small fruits, nectar, tree saps and small animals. Nothing more is known about its reproduction.
Systematics
The red shoulder tamarin was described by the Ecuadorian zoologist Marcos Jiménez de la Espada in 1870. For a long time it was considered a subspecies of the brown-backed tamarin ( Leontocebus fuscicollis ), but is viewed in more recent publications as an independent species because it is more closely related to the golden-mantled tamarin ( Leontocebus tripartitus ) than to the nominate form of the brown-backed tamarin.
literature
- AB Rylands & RA Mittermeier: Family Callitrichidae (Marmosets and Tamarins). Pages 324 and 325 in Russell A. Mittermeier , Anthony B. Rylands & Don E. Wilson : Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Primates: 3rd ISBN 978-8496553897
Individual evidence
- ↑ Colin Groves . 2001. Primate taxonomy. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- ^ Christian Matauschek, Christian Roos & Eckhard W. Heymann: Mitochondrial phylogeny of tamarins ( Saguinus , Hoffmannsegg 1807) with taxonomic and biogeographic implications for the S. nigricollis species group. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol 144, Issue 4, DOI: 10.1002 / ajpa.21445
- ↑ Christian Matauschek, Eckhard W. Heymann, Knut Finstermeier & Christian Roos: Complete mitochondrial genome data reveal the phylogeny of callitrichine primates and a late Miocene divergence of tamarin species groups. University of Göttingen, 2010
- ↑ Rylands & Mittermeier, page 324 and 325
Web links
- Saguinus fuscicollis ssp. lagonotus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: Rylands, AB & Mitter Meier, RA, 2008. Accessed June 11, 2015.