Black-headed Spider Monkey

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Black-headed Spider Monkey[1]

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Ateles
Species: A. fusciceps
Binomial name
Ateles fusciceps
Gray, 1866

The Black-headed Spider Monkey, Ateles fusciceps, is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central and South America. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador and Panama.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 150. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ Rylands, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Ateles geoffroyi ssp. fusciceps. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-06-06.

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