Ornate Spider Monkey

Taxobox
name = Ornate Spider MonkeyMSW3 Groves|id=12100402]


status = EN
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2007|assessors=Cuarón, A.D., de Grammont, P.C., Cortés-Ortiz, L. Wong, G. & Silva, J.C.S.|year=2003|id=2289|title=Ateles geoffroyi "ssp." ornatus|downloaded=2008-07-14 Database entry includes justification for why this species is endangered.]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Atelidae
genus = "Ateles"
species = "A. geoffroyi"
subspecies = "A. g. ornatus"
trinomial = "Ateles geoffroyi ornatus"
trinomial_authority = (Gray, 1870)
synonyms =
*"azuerensis" Bole, 1937
*"panamensis" Kellogg and Golman, 1944

The Ornate Spider Monkey ("Ateles geoffroyi ornatus"), is a subspecies of Geoffroy's Spider Monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, native to Costa Rica and Panama.IUCN2007|assessors=Rylands, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group|year=2003|id=2281|title=Ateles geoffroyi "ssp." panamensis|downloaded=2008-07-26] IUCN2007|assessors=Rylands, A. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group|year=2003|id=2286|title=Ateles geoffroyi "ssp." azuerensis|downloaded=2008-07-26] Other common names for this subspecies include the Brilliant Spider Monkey, the Panama Spider Monkey, and the Azuero Spider Monkey, the latter two of which were previously thought to be distinct subspecies "panamensis" and "azuerensis", respectively.

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