Tamarin

| image = Tamarin portrait 2 edit3.jpg| | image_caption = Emperor tamarin (''Saguinus imperator'') | taxon = Saguinus | authority = Hoffmannsegg, 1807 | type_species = ''Saguinus ursulus'' | type_species_authority = Hoffmannsegg, 1807 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 22 species, see text | synonyms = *''Hapanella'' Gray, 1870 *''Marikina'' Lesson, 1840 *''Midas'' E. Geoffroy, 1812 *''Mystax'' Gray, 1870 *''Oedipomidus'' Reichenbach, 1862 *''Oedipus'' Lesson, 1840 *''Seniocebus'' Gray, 1870 *''Tamarin'' Gray, 1870 }}

The tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus ''Saguinus''. They are the first offshoot in the Callitrichidae tree, and therefore are the sister group of a clade formed by the lion tamarins, Goeldi's monkeys and marmosets. Provided by Wikipedia