Ateles paniscus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:26.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guyana .

DISTRIBUTION: North of the Amazon (east of Rio Negro).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: ater F. Cuvier; cayennensis, pentadactylus, subpentadactylus, surinamensis.