Taxonomy
-Kingdom: Animalia
-Phylum: Chordata
-Class: Mammalia
-Order: Primate
-Family: Atelidae
Scientific name of species
>Ateles fusciceps ssp. Fusciceps
Common names
>English: Brown-headed spider monkey
>French: Atèle À Tête Brune
>Spanish: Mono Araña De Cabeza Marrón
-Phylum: Chordata
-Class: Mammalia
-Order: Primate
-Family: Atelidae
Scientific name of species
>Ateles fusciceps ssp. Fusciceps
Common names
>English: Brown-headed spider monkey
>French: Atèle À Tête Brune
>Spanish: Mono Araña De Cabeza Marrón
Geographic range
> Native to Ecuador (mainland), Colombia (mainland) and Panama
> Found far south in these areas
Habitat and system
>Live in Ecuador (hot/ humid areas)
>Live in tropical and subtropical humid forest from 100 to 1,700 m above sea level
>Evergreen rainforests, semi deciduous and mangrove forests, within these forests they live mainly in upper canopy’s
>Preferred to not be disturbed at high areas in forest
>Rarely come down to forest floor and prefer wet forests relatively better than dry
>Spend time very high up, at tip of trees near the canopy and hang from branches.
>The system they are a part of is Terrestrial
Populations and trends
>Estimated to be around 2000
>Drastically decreasing, suffered an approximate decline of more than 80% over past three generations
> Found far south in these areas
Habitat and system
>Live in Ecuador (hot/ humid areas)
>Live in tropical and subtropical humid forest from 100 to 1,700 m above sea level
>Evergreen rainforests, semi deciduous and mangrove forests, within these forests they live mainly in upper canopy’s
>Preferred to not be disturbed at high areas in forest
>Rarely come down to forest floor and prefer wet forests relatively better than dry
>Spend time very high up, at tip of trees near the canopy and hang from branches.
>The system they are a part of is Terrestrial
Populations and trends
>Estimated to be around 2000
>Drastically decreasing, suffered an approximate decline of more than 80% over past three generations
Citations:
http://www.arkive.org/brown-headed-spider-monkey/ateles-fusciceps/ ,http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/39922/0, http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/135446/0, http://www.psgb.org/Conservation/documents/AbstractFionnMagnusson.pdf.pdf,
http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/rainforests/spidermonkey.html
http://www.arkive.org/brown-headed-spider-monkey/ateles-fusciceps/ ,http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/39922/0, http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/135446/0, http://www.psgb.org/Conservation/documents/AbstractFionnMagnusson.pdf.pdf,
http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/rainforests/spidermonkey.html