| Black-headed spider monkey[1] | |
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| Colombian spider monkey at Jaime Duque Park, Cundinamarca, Colombia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Atelidae |
| Genus: | Ateles |
| Species: | A. fusciceps
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| Binomial name | |
| Ateles fusciceps J. E. Gray, 1866
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| Distribution of A. geoffroyi (blue) and A. fusciceps (red) | |
The black-headed spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps) is a type of New World monkey, from Central and South America. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.[2] Although primatologists such as Colin Groves (1989) follow Kellogg and Goldman (1944) in treating A. fusciceps as a separate species, other authors, including Froelich (1991), Collins and Dubach (2001) and Nieves (2005) treat it as a subspecies of Geoffroy's spider monkey.[1][3]
The two subspecies are:[1]
- Ateles fusciceps fusciceps – northwestern Ecuador.[2]
- Ateles fusciceps rufiventris – southwest Colombia to eastern Panama.[2]
- ^ a b c Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 150. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b c d Moscoso, P.; Link, A.; Defler, T.R.; de la Torre, S.; Cortes-Ortíz, L.; Méndez-Carvajal, P.G.; Shanee, S. (2021). "Ateles fusciceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T135446A191687087. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T135446A191687087.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Collins, A. (2008). "The taxonomic status of spider monkeys in the twenty-first century". In Campbell, C. (ed.). Spider Monkeys. Cambridge University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-521-86750-4.