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Golden-Rumped Lion Tamarin

Educational resources on Golden-Rumped Lion Tamarin

Golden-Rumped Lion Tamarin or Leontopithecus chrysopygus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Critically Endangered due to C2a(ii). IUCN Profile of the Golden-Rumped Lion Tamarin

Academic web links for the Golden-Rumped Lion Tamarin.


ADW: Leontopithecus chrysopygus: Information
This is what gives the animal its common name, golden-rumped lion tamarin. The face of L. chrysopygus is not haired, as well as the hands and feet, these are colored dark gray to
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Leontopithecus_chrysopygus.html

ADW: Leontopithecus chrysopygus: Classification
Leontopithecus chrysopygus (golden-rumped lion tamarin) ... What do these icons mean? The icons tell you what features are available for
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Leontopithecus_chrysopygus.html

ADW: Search
Leontopithecus chrysopygus (golden-rumped lion tamarin ... What do these icons mean? The icons tell you what features are available for
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/search?SearchableText=tamarin

Family Callitrichidae
...and L. chrysopygus (golden-rumped lion tamarin) largest callitrichines ; most endangered primates; located in southeast Brazil; quadrupedal
csm.jmu.edu/biology/wunderre/primate_primer/family_callitrichidae.htm

10kTrees Website: Download Trees
Leontopithecus chrysopygus (golden-rumped lion tamarin) Leontopithecus rosalia (golden lion tamarin) Saguinus bicolor (Brazilian bare-faced tamarin)
10ktrees.fas.harvard.edu/downloadTrees.php

Primate Info Net: Common Names for the Order Primates
English: Golden-rumped Lion Tamarin Black Lion Tamarin Lepilemur dorsalis English: Gray-Backed Sportive Lemur Nosy Be Sportive Lemur
pin.primate.wisc.edu/aboutp/taxonomy/common.html

ADW: Leontopithecus: Classification
What do these icons mean? The icons tell you what features are available for ... Leontopithecus chrysopygus (golden-rumped lion tamarin)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Leontopithecus.html

Genus Leontopithecus--4 spp
Leontopithecus chrysopygus--Golden-rumped Lion Tamarin. Leontopithecus caissara--Superagui Lion Tamarin
users.edinboro.edu/plindeman/leontopithecus.html

Laboratory Primate Newsletter Volume 23 Number 2
...species, the golden lion tamarin Leontopithecus rosalia (Linnaeus, 1766), the golden-headed lion tamarin Leontopithecus chrysomelas (Kuhl, 1820) and the golden-rumped lion tamarin
www.brown.edu/Research/Primate/lpn23-2.html

The Lawrence Jacobsen Library: Books Received
In 1969 and 1970, he rediscovered the black, or golden-rumped, lion tamarin in the Morro do Diabo State Reserve in Sao Paulo, which had not been seen in 65 years.
library.primate.wisc.edu/collections/books/liontamarin.html







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