Red-mantled saddle-back tamarin

The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus lagonotus) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America. The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis. It lives in Ecuador and Peru and its type locality is in Peru, near the confluence of the Amazon River and the Napo River.

The red-mantled saddle-back tamarin has a head and body length of between 220 mm and 270 mm with a tail length between 275 mm and 330 mm long. It weighs between 350 g and 400 g.

The IUCN rates it as least concern from a conservation standpoint.