Saguinus nigricollis

– Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

PRIMATES

Family:

CALLITRICHIDAE

Scientific Name:

Saguinus nigricollis

Species Authority:

(Spix, 1823)

Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:

See Saguinus nigricollis ssp. graellsi

See Saguinus nigricollis ssp. nigricollis

See Saguinus nigricollis ssp. hernandezi

Common Name/s:

English	—	BLACK-MANTLED TAMARIN, SPIX'S BLACK MANTLE TAMARIN
Spanish	—	CHICHICO DE MANTO NEGRO, SAGÜI

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

LC ver 3.1 (2001)

Year Assessed:

2003

Assessor/s:

Defler, T.R. & Rodríguez-M, J.V.

Evaluator/s:

Rylands, A.B. & Mittermeier, R.A. (Primate Red List Authority)

Justification:

Saguinus nigricollis has a small range and is poorly known. It probably is not hunted, although possibly there is some use of the species as pets. There is currently no evidence of any major threats. Assessed as Least Concern.

History:

2000

Lower Risk/least concern (Hilton-Taylor 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description:

Saguinus nigricollis includes three subspecies: S. n. nigricollis, S. n. graellsi and S. n. hernandezi. All subspecies are assessed as Least Concern.

Countries:

Native:

Colombia; Peru

Uncertain presence and origin:

Brazil

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Aquino R. and Encarnación, F. 1994. Primates of Peru / Los Primates del Perú. Primate Report (40): 1-127.

Groves, C.P. 2001. The Taxonomy of Primates. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Hernández-Camacho, J. and Cooper, R.W. 1976. The non-human primates of Colombia. In: R W. Thorington Jr. and P.G. Heltne (eds). Neotropical Primates: Field Studies and Conservation. pp. 35-69. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Hershkovitz, P. 1977. Living New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini) with an Introduction to Primates, Vol. 1. Chicago University Press, Chicago.

Hershkovitz, P. 1982. Subspecies and geographic distribution of black-mantle tamarins Saguinus nigricollis Spix (Primates: Callitrichidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society Washington 95(4): 647-656.

Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.

Rylands, A.B., Coimbra-Filho, A.F. and Mittermeier, R.A. 1993. Systematics, distributions, and some notes on the conservation status of the Callitrichidae. In: A.B. Rylands (ed.). Marmosets and Tamarins: Systematics, Behaviour and Ecology pp.11-77. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Citation:	Defler, T.R. & Rodríguez-M, J.V 2003. Saguinus nigricollis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 September 2008.
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