Critically Endangered
Pied tamarin
Saguinus bicolor
Pied tamarin is a primate in the family Callitrichidae (order Primates) — Saguinus bicolor, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Furthermore, both male and female tamarins exhibit the same coloration: they have a black furless face with a white upper body and a lower body that can range in color from a light to dark brown. Their furless face gives them the nickname "Brazilian bare-faced tamarin." The pied tamarin does not have nails, but instead has claws that allow them to quickly scale trees in order to retrieve food or escape predators.
The pied tamarin does not exhibit sexual dimorphism, as both males and females weigh around 500 g (18 oz) and are roughly 28–32 cm (11–13 in) in length.
Range and habitat
A New World monkey, the pied tamarin is found at the city limits of Manaus, the capital of the Amazonas state of Brazil and up to 35 km (22 mi) to the north and 100 km (62 mi) to the east. A tamarin group has a home range of 10–100 ha (25–247 acres). Pied tamarins are also found in the adjacent interfluvial areas of the Rio Preto da Eva and Rio Urubu, but are comparatively rare.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Pied tamarins are omnivorous. Their diet consisting of gums, saps, fruit, flowers, nectar, insects, spiders, small vertebrates and bird eggs. Due to the pheromones released by the dominant female, none of the other females in the group mate with other males.
The breeding period lasts from March to May.
In crisis
The species is endangered due to the increasing size of the city of Manaus, that is encroaching on their native habitat.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Pied tamarin is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Pied tamarin, Wikidata item Q232625. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
