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Atelidae
Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorrhini
Family: Atelidae
Gray, 1825
Genera

Alouatta
Ateles
Brachyteles
Lagothrix
Oreonax

The Atelidae are one of the two families of New World monkeys now recognised. Formerly they were included in the family Cebidae. The family includes the howler monkeys, spider monkeys and woolly monkeys.


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