The Central American squirrel monkey[1] also called the red-backed squirrel monkey, a species of New-World monkey, is a squirrel monkey type native to the Pacific coast of Panama and Costa Rica.
- Central American squirrel monkeys are slender and petite with long tails. Much of the body fur and the forearms, hands, and feet are yellowish-brown.
- Their belly is light yellow. As their alternate common name, the red-backed squirrel monkey, suggests, they have golden red fur on their backs.
- The shoulders and hips are gray-brown, and the tail is also grey-brown but with a black tip.
- Central American squirrel monkeys can be distinguished from the South American squirrel monkey by the crown on their heads.
- Central American squirrel monkeys have black fur on their crowns, while South American squirrel monkeys have brownish-gray crowns.
