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Red-mantled saddle-back tamarin

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The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus lagonotus) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a small monkey from South America, living in Ecuador and Peru. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, Leontocebus fuscicollis, and its type locality is in Peru near the confluence of the Amazon and Napo rivers. Its head and body length is between 220 and 270 millimetres, with a tail of 275 to 330 millimetres, and it weighs between 350 and 400 grams. The IUCN Red List rates it as least concern from a conservation standpoint.

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It lives in Ecuador and Peru

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It lives in Ecuador and Peru
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    It lives in Ecuador and Peru and its type locality is in Peru, near the confluence of the Amazon River and the Napo River.
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    a type of small monkey from South America
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