Leontocebus tripartitus Milne-Edwards 1878 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Cebidae

Alternative combinations: Midas tripartitus, Saguinus tripartitus

Full reference: M.A. Milne-Edwards. 1878. Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Midas et observations sur l'Ateles variegatus. Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 1:159-166

Belongs to Leontocebus according to C. J. Burgin et al. 2018

See also Milne-Edwards 1878 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Saguinus bicolor, Saguinus geoffroyi, Saguinus graellsi, Saguinus imperator, Saguinus inustus, Saguinus labiatus, Saguinus leucopus, Saguinus martinsi, Saguinus melanoleucus, Saguinus midas, Saguinus mystax, Saguinus niger, Saguinus ursulus, Leontocebus nigrifrons, Leontocebus leucogenys, Leontocebus nigricollis, Leontocebus weddelli, Leontocebus lagonotus, Leontocebus fuscicollis, Leontocebus illigeri, Leontocebus cruzlimai, Leontocebus fuscus, Leontocebus geoffroyi

Ecology: arboreal insectivore-herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Leontocebus tripartitus in the database

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