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
status

 

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Atelidae

Genus

Ateles

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