#0461 · 🦊 mammals
Geoffroy’s Tamarin
🇳🇱 Geoffroy's Tamarin ·Saguinus geoffroyi
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what is it?
Geoffroy's tamarin ( Saguinus geoffroyi ), also known as the Panamanian , red-crested or rufous-naped tamarin , is a tamarin, a type of small monkey, found in Panama and Colombia. It is predominantly black and white, with a reddish nape. Diurnal, Geoffroy's tamarin spends most of its time in trees, but does come down to the ground occasionally. It lives in groups that most often number between three and five individuals, and generally include one or more adults of each...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,184 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacques Pucheran in 1845 (181 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Geoffroy’s Tamarin
- Nederlands
- Geoffroy's Tamarin
- scientific name
- Saguinus geoffroyi
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Primates
- family
- Callitrichidae
- IUCN Red List
- NT · near threatened
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,184
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1845 by Jacques Pucheran
IUCN in Dutch: gevoelig. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Callitrichidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43384, Wikidata Q934586, GBIF 2436466, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.