Brown-headed Spider Monkey
Ateles fusciceps
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Epic
- Observations
- 127
- Most observed in
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- Conservation
- Endangered
Description
The black-headed spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps) is a species of spider monkey from Central and South America, specifically Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. 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. The two subspecies are: Ateles fusciceps fusciceps – northwestern Ecuador. Ateles fusciceps rufiventris – southwest Colombia to eastern Panama.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Black-headed spider monkey”.