Black-headed spider monkey

Black-headed spider monkey[1]
Colombian spider monkey at Jaime Duque Park, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Ateles
Species:
A. fusciceps
Binomial name
Ateles fusciceps
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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.