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Saguinus Hoffmannsegg, 1807
Taxonomic Serial No.: 572809

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Hapanella Gray, 1870
		Marikina Lesson, 1840
		Midas É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812
		Mystax Gray, 1870
		Oedipomidus Reichenbach, 1862
		Oedipus Lesson, 1840
		Seniocebus Gray, 1870
		Tamarin Gray, 1870
		Tamarinus Trouessart, 1904
	Common Name(s):	tamarins [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2021

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Primates Linnaeus, 1758 – homem, macaco, primata, sagui, primates, primates
	Suborder	Haplorrhini Pocock, 1918
	Infraorder	Simiiformes Haeckel, 1866
	Family	Callitrichidae Gray, 1821 – marmosets, tamarins
	Genus	Saguinus Hoffmannsegg, 1807 – tamarins
		Direct Children:
	Species	Saguinus bicolor (Spix, 1823) – Brazilian Bare-faced Tamarin, Pied Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus geoffroyi (Pucheran, 1845) – Geoffroy's Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus imperator (Goeldi, 1907) – Emperor Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus inustus (Schwarz, 1951) – Mottled-face Tamarin, Mottle-faced Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus labiatus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812) – Red-chested Mustached Tamarin, White-lipped Tamarin, Red-bellied Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus leucopus (Günther, 1877) – Silvery-brown Bare-face Tamarin, White-footed Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus martinsi (Thomas, 1912) – Martins' Bare-faced Tamarin, Martins's Tamarin, Martins's Bare-faced Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus midas (Linnaeus, 1758) – Midas Tamarin, Red-handed Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus mystax (Spix, 1823) – Black-chested Mustached Tamarin, Moustached Tamarin, Mustached Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus niger (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803) – Western Black-handed Tamarin, Black Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus oedipus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Cotton-top Tamarin, Cottontop Tamarin
	Species	Saguinus ursula Hoffmannsegg, 1807 – Eastern Black-handed Tamarin

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Anthony B. Rylands
	Notes:	Deputy Chair, IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, Office of the Executive Vice Chair, Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202, USA
	Reference for:	Saguinus

	Expert:	Colin P. Groves
	Notes:	Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
	Reference for:	Saguinus

	Other Source(s):
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	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Mittermeier, Rusell A., Anthony B. Rylands, and Don E. Wilson, eds.
	Publication Date:	2013
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 3. Primates
	Page(s):	951
	Publisher:	Lynx Edicions
	Publication Place:	Barcelona, Spain
	ISBN/ISSN:	9788496553897
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Saguinus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Rylands, Anthony B., Eckhard W. Heymann, Jessica Lynch Alfaro, Janet C. Buckner, et al.
	Publication Date:	2016
	Article/Chapter Title:	Taxonomic review of the New World tamarins (Primates: Callitrichidae)
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society, vol. 177, no. 4
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	ISBN/ISSN:	1096-3642
	Notes:	DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12386; early view online
	Reference for:	Saguinus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
	Page(s):	xviii + 1207
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-217-9
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Saguinus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	2005
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 1
	Page(s):	xxxv + 743
	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
	Publication Place:	Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-8018-8221-4
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	Reference for:	Saguinus

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: See Hershkovitz (1977:601-603). For a summary of interrelationships between species, using external, cranial, vocalization and DNA evidence, see Groves (2001c:137-8), who divided the genus into the following species groups: (1) S. midas group (midas, niger), (2) S. nigricollis group (nigricollis, graellsi, fuscicollis, melanoleucus, tropartitus), (3) S. mystax group (mystax, pileatus, labiatus, imperator), (4) S. bicolor group (bicolor, martinsi), (5) S. oedipus group (oedipus, geoffroyi, l...

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