Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin vs melaleuca

Leontocebus fuscus compared with Melaleuca quinquenervia

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin	melaleuca
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (plantas)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Primates (primatas)	Myrtales (Myrtales)
Family	Callitrichidae	Myrtaceae
Genus	Leontocebus	Melaleuca
Species	Leontocebus fuscus	Melaleuca quinquenervia

Conservation Status

Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin

LC — Least Concern

melaleuca

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin	melaleuca
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in Colombia.

melaleuca

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests spanning the Afrotropic and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (8 countries), Asia (India, Malaysia, Vietnam), Europe (5 countries), North America (18 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (4 countries), and South America (4 countries).