Black-headed spider monkey
| Black-headed spider monkey | |
|---|---|
| Colombian spider monkey at Jaime Duque Park, Cundinamarca, Colombia | |
| Scientific 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 J. E. Gray, 1866 | |
| 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, 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.