The Mexican spider monkey (''Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus'') is a subspecies of Geoffroy's spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Mexico and Central America, native to Mexico,

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

, Nicaragua and

El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...

. It is described as being critically endangered by the

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, due to an 80% population decline in the last 45 years, mostly due to a large amount of habitat loss.

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Spider monkeys Monkey, Spider, Mexican Monkey, Spider, Mexican Monkey, Spider, Mexican Monkey, Spider, Mexican Taxa named by John Edward Gray Mammals described in 1866 {{CentralAm-stub