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title: "Leontocebus weddelli"
description: "Saguinus weddelli — Zoogdieren. Weddell's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus weddelli) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/white-mantled-tamarin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Leontocebus weddelli

> Saguinus weddelli — Zoogdieren. Weddell's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus weddelli) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America.

- Scientific name: *Saguinus weddelli*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 790
- Wikidata: [Q22675245](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22675245)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1368626](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1368626)

## Names

- en: White-mantled Tamarin
- de: Schwarzmanteltamarin
- es: Tamarino de manto blanco
- fr: Tamarin de Weddell
- it: Leontocebus weddelli
- nl: Leontocebus weddelli
- pt: Leontocebus weddelli
- pl: Leontocebus weddelli

## Countries with the most observations

PE (445), BR (277), BO (43)

## Summary

Weddell's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus weddelli) is a species of saddle-back tamarin, a type of small monkey from South America.  Weddell's saddle-back tamarin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin, L. fuscicollis.  It lives in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, with the type locality being in Bolivia.
There are 3 subspecies:

Leontocebus weddelli weddelli
Crandall's saddle-back tamarin, (Leontocebus weddelli crandalli)
White-mantled tamarin or White saddle-back tamarin, (Leontocebus weddelli melanoleucus)
Males have a head and body length of about 190.0 millimetres (7.48 in) and females…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell%27s_saddle-back_tamarin

## Photo

![Leontocebus weddelli](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-mantled-tamarin/medium.jpg)

Photo: Whaldener Endo · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120714532

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-mantled-tamarin?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).