Yucatan spider monkey

Yucatan spider monkey[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Ateles
Species: A. geoffroyi
Subspecies: A. g. yucatanensis
Trinomial name
Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis
(Kellogg and Goldman, 1944)

The Yucatan spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis), is a subspecies of Geoffroy's spider monkey, a type of New World monkey,[1] from Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.[2][3] It has paler fur than the Mexican Spider Monkey.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100404. 
  2. ^ a b Cuarón, A.D., Morales, A., Shedden, A., Rodriguez-Luna, E. & de Grammont, P.C. (2008). Ateles geoffroyi ssp. yucatanensis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 13 January 2009.
  3. ^ a b Rylands, A., Groves, C., Mittermeier, R., Cortes-Ortiz, L., and Hines, J. (2006). "Taxonomy and Distributions of Mesoamerican Primates". New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates. pp. 56–66. ISBN 0-387-25854-X.