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title: "Central American Spider Monkey"
description: "Ateles geoffroyi — Mammals. Geoffroy's spider monkey, also known as the black-handed spider monkey or the Central American spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, parts of Mexico and possibly a small portion of Colombia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/central-american-spider-monkey
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Central American Spider Monkey

> Ateles geoffroyi — Mammals. Geoffroy's spider monkey, also known as the black-handed spider monkey or the Central American spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, parts of Mexico and possibly a small portion of Colombia.

- Scientific name: *Ateles geoffroyi*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammals)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 11557
- Wikidata: [Q388032](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q388032)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43411](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43411)

## Names

- en: Central American Spider Monkey
- de: Geoffroy-Klammeraffe
- es: Mono Araña Centroamericano
- fr: Atèle de Geoffroy
- nl: Zwarthandslingeraap
- pl: Czepiak Geoffroya

## Countries with the most observations

CR (4912), MX (3664), GT (904), BZ (317), NI (169), PA (149), HN (39), SV (13)

## Summary

Geoffroy's spider monkey, also known as the black-handed spider monkey or the Central American spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, parts of Mexico and possibly a small portion of Colombia. There are at least five subspecies. Some primatologists classify the black-headed spider monkey (A. fusciceps), found in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador as the same species as Geoffroy's spider monkey.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffroy's_spider_monkey

## Photo

![Central American Spider Monkey](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/central-american-spider-monkey/medium.jpg)

Photo: relet · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43411

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/central-american-spider-monkey?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).