Saguinus imperator

– Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

PRIMATES

Family:

CALLITRICHIDAE

Scientific Name:

Saguinus imperator

Species Authority:

(Goeldi, 1907)

Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:

See Saguinus imperator ssp. imperator

See Saguinus imperator ssp. subgrisescens

Common Name/s:

English	—	EMPEROR TAMARIN
Spanish	—	BIGODEIRO, MONO BIGOTUDO, MONO NICOLÁS SUÁREZ

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

LC ver 3.1 (2001)

Year Assessed:

2003

Assessor/s:

Heymann, E.W., Rylands, A.B., Bampi, M.I., Chiarello, A.G., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Mendes, S.L. & Marcelino, M.

Evaluator/s:

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

Justification:

Saguinus imperator has a relatively restricted range. The species is not hunted, although possibly there is some use as pets. Currently assessed as Least Concern.

History:

1982	-	Indeterminate (Thornback and Jenkins 1982)
1986	-	Indeterminate (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Indeterminate (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Indeterminate (IUCN 1990)
2000	-	Lower Risk/least concern (Hilton-Taylor 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description:	The species includes two subspecies: S. i. imperator in Brazil and Peru, in the southwestern Amazon, east of the upper Rio Purus, between the Purus and the Rio Acre; and S. i. subgrisescens in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, in the southwestern Amazon. S. i. subgrisescens is assessed as Least Concern, while S. i. imperator is currently Data Deficient.
Countries:	Native: Bolivia; Brazil; Peru

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.

Buchanan-Smith, H.M., Hardie, S.M., Caceres, C. and Prescott, M.J. 2000. Distribution and forest utilization of Saguinus and other primates of the Pando Department, northern Bolivia. International Journal of Primatology 21(3): 353-379.

Eisenberg, J.F. and Redford, K.H. 1999. Mammals of the Neotropics. The Central Neotropics, Volume 3: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

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

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

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

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. 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.

Thornback, J. and Jenkins, M. 1982. The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Citation:	Heymann, E.W., Rylands, A.B., Bampi, M.I., Chiarello, A.G., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Mendes, S.L. & Marcelino, M. 2003. Saguinus imperator. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 August 2008.
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