﻿ATELEUS 
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  Subfamily 
  4. 
  Cebinae. 
  

   GENUS 
  *ATELEUS. 
  SPIDER 
  MONKEYS. 
  

  

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  ATELES 
  ( 
  !) 
  E. 
  Geoff., 
  Ann. 
  Mus. 
  Hist. 
  Nat. 
  Paris, 
  VII, 
  1806, 
  p. 
  

  

  262. 
  Type 
  Simia 
  paniscus 
  Linnaeus. 
  

   Cercopithecus 
  Blumenb., 
  Handb. 
  Naturg., 
  I, 
  1779, 
  p. 
  68. 
  (nee 
  

  

  Gronow, 
  1763, 
  nee 
  Brunnich, 
  1772, 
  nee 
  Erxleben, 
  1777). 
  

   Sapajus 
  Kerr, 
  Anim. 
  Kingd., 
  Mamm., 
  I, 
  1792, 
  p. 
  74, 
  (Part.). 
  

   Sapajou 
  Laceped., 
  Tabl. 
  Mamm., 
  1799, 
  p. 
  4. 
  

   Atelocheirus 
  E. 
  Geoff., 
  Ann. 
  Mus. 
  Hist. 
  Nat. 
  Paris, 
  VII, 
  1806, 
  p. 
  

  

  272. 
  

   Paniscus 
  Rafin., 
  Analyse 
  de 
  la 
  Nature, 
  1815, 
  p. 
  53, 
  (nee 
  Schrank. 
  

  

  1802 
  Hymenopt.). 
  

   Sapaju 
  Ritgen, 
  Naturl. 
  Einth. 
  Saugth. 
  Giess., 
  1824, 
  p. 
  33. 
  

  

  Body 
  light, 
  slender; 
  limbs 
  long, 
  slender; 
  arms 
  longer 
  than 
  legs; 
  

   head 
  rounded, 
  muzzle 
  projecting; 
  thumb 
  rudimentary, 
  or 
  absent; 
  tail 
  

   very 
  long, 
  naked 
  beneath, 
  tip 
  prehensible; 
  fur 
  coarse, 
  not 
  woolly; 
  

   canines 
  large 
  with 
  a 
  diastema 
  between 
  them 
  and 
  the 
  incisors; 
  middle 
  

   upper 
  incisors 
  long, 
  broad, 
  larger 
  than 
  outer 
  ; 
  molars 
  four 
  cusped 
  with 
  

   transverse 
  ridges 
  between. 
  

  

  The 
  Spider 
  Monkeys 
  constitute 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  remarkable 
  groups 
  

   of 
  the 
  Primates, 
  and 
  the 
  tail 
  as 
  a 
  prehensile 
  organ 
  has 
  attained 
  what 
  

   may 
  be 
  considered 
  the 
  greatest 
  degree 
  of 
  perfection 
  of 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  

   capable. 
  As 
  an 
  arboreal 
  animal 
  this 
  Monkey 
  represents 
  the 
  highest 
  

   development 
  of 
  the 
  Quadrumana 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  World 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  known, 
  

   no 
  other 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Order 
  in 
  past 
  or 
  present 
  time, 
  in 
  the 
  Western 
  

   Hemisphere, 
  has 
  approached 
  nearer 
  the 
  higher 
  forms 
  of 
  the 
  Old 
  

   World. 
  

  

  The 
  tail 
  is 
  unsurpassed, 
  if 
  not 
  unequalled, 
  in 
  its 
  flexibility, 
  always 
  

   in 
  motion, 
  the 
  tip 
  as 
  sensitive 
  as 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  elephant's 
  trunk, 
  grasping 
  

  

  *Ar€\riff 
  a 
  priv. 
  and 
  Te\o<r,€o<r 
  a 
  neuter 
  noun, 
  which 
  with 
  the 
  a 
  priv. 
  

   would 
  be, 
  when 
  Latinized, 
  Ateleus, 
  which 
  should 
  be 
  the 
  generic 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  

   Spider 
  Monkeys. 
  

  

  