NALT

Preferred term

Saguinus oedipus

Organism

One of the smallest monkeys, this is a small New World monkey weighing less than 0.5 kg. This species communicates through a complex language of vocalizations and researchers have studied language acquisition in cottop-top tamarin colonies. Also known as the cotton-top tamarin.

Saguinus

cotton-top tamarin

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

32721

Has taxonomic rank

species

Spanish

saguinus oedipus
Saguinus oedipus
cotton-top tamarin

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/29646

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 2/17/17