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Mexican spider monkey

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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]

^ ^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.

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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, 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.