This saddle-back tamarin occurs in forests east of the Andes in Peru. Records include primary and secondary forest, forest edge, and riparian forest.
The mantle, arms, throat, and upper chest are black or blackish brown. Its saddle is marbled buff and black, and the rump is orange.
It uses primary and secondary forest, forest edges, and riparian forest east of the Andes in Peru, south of the Río Perené to the upper Río Ucayali.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.