Illiger's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus illigeri) is a small monkey of the family Callitrichidae that was formerly considered a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin and is closely related to the Andean saddle-back tamarin. It is endemic to the Peruvian Amazon, and its type locality is in Loreto, Peru, on the left bank of the lower Rio Ucayali. Head and body length is between 175 and 205 millimetres with a tail of 300 to 305 millimetres, and males weigh about 292 grams and females about 296 grams. The IUCN rates it as near threatened from a conservation standpoint.
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