Ateles fusciceps

J. E. Gray, 1866

Brown-headed Spider Monkey

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Platyrrhini
Family : Atelidae
Subfamily : Atelinae
Genus : Ateles

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gray, J.E. 1866-04. Notice of some new species of spider monkeys (Ateles) in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865(3):732-733.

Original name as described

Ateles fusciceps

Other common names

Black-headed Spider Monkey · Colombian Black Spider Monkey

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1855.12.24.35

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

South America. Restricted by Kellogg and E. Goldman in 1944 to Ecuador, Hacienda Chinipamba, near Peñaherrera, Imbabura Province at 1500 m.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Panama · Colombia · Ecuador

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

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