Red-handed tamarin
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| phylum | Chordata | The red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas), also known as the golden-handed tamarin or Midas tamarin, is a New World monkey named for the contrasting reddish-orange hair on its feet and hands. It is native to wooded areas north of the Amazon River in Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, and possibly Venezuela. A population of tamarins south of the Amazon River that lack the contrasting feet and hands was previously believed to be a sub-population of red-handed tamarins but is now treated as a separate species, the black tamarin.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Primates | |
| family | Callitrichidae | |
| genus | Saguinus | |
| species | S. midas |
