Illiger's saddle-back tamarin


Illiger's saddle-back tamarin is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. Illiger's saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis. It is closely related to the Andean saddle-back tamarin. It is endemic to the Peruvian Amazon and its type locality is in Loreto, Peru, at the left bank of the lower Rio Ucayali.
Illiger's saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between and with a tail length between and long. Males weigh about and females weight about.
The IUCN rates it as least concern from a conservation standpoint.