Ateles geoffroyi Kuhl, 1820

Hidalgo-Mihart, Mircea G., Contreras-Moreno, Fernando M., Jesús-de la Cruz, Alejandro, Juárez-López, Rugieri, Bravata de la Cruz, Yaribeth, Pérez-Solano, Luz A., Hernández-Lara, Carolina, Friedeberg, Diana, Thornton, Dan & Koller-González, Juan M., 2017, Inventory of medium-sized and large mammals in the wetlands of Laguna de Terminos and Pantanos de Centla, Mexico, Check List 13 (6), pp. 711-726 : 715

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/13.6.711
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6493929
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B3B9736-FFCD-DC1B-E457-FA231F08BAAB
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Ateles geoffroyi Kuhl, 1820
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Ateles geoffroyi Kuhl, 1820 View in CoL

Material examined. Table 2; Figure 7.

Ateles geoffroyi is the only species of the Ateles genus in Mexico (Hall 1981). The very long, thin limbs, small head, and long prehensile tail make this species distinct from any other species in the region ( Reid 2009).