Mexican spider monkey
Mexican spider monkey[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Atelidae |
Genus: | Ateles |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | A. g. vellerosus
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Trinomial name | |
Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus (Gray, 1866)
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The Mexican spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus), is a subspecies of Geoffroy's spider monkey, a type of New World monkey,[1] from Mexico and Central America, native to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. It is described as being critically endangered by the IUCN, due to an 80% population decline in the last 45 years, mostly due to a large amount of habitat loss.[2][3]
References[]
- ^ a b Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Rosales-Meda, M.; Cortes-Ortíz, L.; Canales-Espinosa, D.; Marsh, L.K.; Rylands, A.B.; Mittermeier, R.A. (2020). "Ateles geoffroyi ssp. vellerosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T160872795A17979441. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T160872795A17979441.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Rylands, A.; Groves, C.; Mittermeier, R.; Cortes-Ortiz, L. & Hines, J. (2006). "Taxonomy and Distributions of Mesoamerican Primates". New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates. pp. 56–66. ISBN 0-387-25854-X.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List critically endangered species
- Spider monkeys
- Mammals of Mexico
- Primates of Central America
- Critically endangered fauna of North America
- Critically endangered biota of Mexico
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
- Mammals described in 1866
- New World monkey stubs
- Mexico stubs
- Central America stubs