Mexican Spider Monkey

Taxobox
name = Mexican Spider MonkeyMSW3 Groves|id=12100403]


status = CR
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=2001|id=39923|title=Ateles geoffroyi "ssp." vellerosus|downloaded=2008-08-31]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Atelidae
genus = "Ateles"
species = "A. geoffroyi"
subspecies = "A. g. vellerosus "
trinomial = "Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus"
trinomial_authority = (Gray, 1866)
synonyms =
*"neglectus" Reinhardt, 1873
*"pan Schlegel" 1876
*"tricolor" Hollister, 1914

The Mexican Spider Monkey ("Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus"), is a subspecies of Geoffroy's Spider Monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, native to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.cite book|title=New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates|chapter=Taxonomy and Distributions of Mesoamerican Primates|author=Rylands, A., Groves, C., Mittermeier, R., Cortes-Ortiz, L., and Hines, J.|year=2006|page=56–66|isbn=0-387-25854-X]

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