Endangered
Superagui lion tamarin
Leontopithecus caissara
There are several conservation projects and the total populations is unlikely to exceed 400 individuals.
The primate
Superagui lion tamarin is a primate in the family Callitrichidae (order Primates) — Leontopithecus caissara.
Range and habitat
It is endangered and endemic to coastal forests in southeastern Brazil. It is overall golden-orange with contrasting black head, legs and tail. The black-faced lion tamarin was not recognized until 1990 when two Brazilian researchers, Maria Lucia Lorini and Vanessa Persson, described it based on individuals from the island of Superagui in the Brazilian state of Paraná.
Shortly after additional populations were discovered on the adjacent mainland in Paraná and in the far southern São Paulo. The specific name caissara is a reference to the caicaras, the local people of Superagui Island.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Within these families there is normally only one breeding female per season. Grooming is the most common form of affiliative behavior seen by the species specifically between the breeding pair.
In crisis
There are several conservation projects and the total populations is unlikely to exceed 400 individuals. Mainland populations prefer swampy and inundated secondary forest for habitat. Both populations strictly remain at altitudes below 40 m (130 ft).
The black-faced lion tamarin has such a specific habitat preference and low population (400 individuals in total, of that approximately half are mature) that habitat loss is the greatest threat to the species. Within Brazil, it is included on the national Official List of Species Threatened with Extinction and it is also on regional lists by both the Paraná and São Paulo states.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Superagui lion tamarin is 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 Superagui lion tamarin, Wikidata item Q1065007. 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.
