Muriqui

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Muriquis [1]
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Northern muriqui,
Brachyteles hypoxanthus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Atelidae
Subfamily: Atelinae
Genus: Brachyteles
Spix, 1823
Type species
Brachyteles macrotarsus
Spix, 1823
(= Ateles arachnoides É. Geoffroy, 1806)
Species

Brachyteles arachnoides
Brachyteles hypoxanthus

The muriquis, also known as woolly spider monkeys, are the monkeys of the genus Brachyteles. [1] They are closely related to both the spider monkeys and the woolly monkeys. [1]

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Species

The two species are: [2]

Genus Brachyteles – Spix, 1823 – two species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Southern muriqui

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Brachyteles arachnoides
(É. Geoffroy, 1806)		Brazil (Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais)
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Habitat:

Diet:		  CR 


Northern muriqui

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Brachyteles hypoxanthus
(Kuhl, 1820)		Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia.)
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Habitat:

Diet:		  CR 


They are the two largest species of New World monkeys, and the northern species is one of the most endangered of all the world's monkeys. [3]

The muriqui lives primarily in coffee estates in southeastern Brazil. [4] : 174  Males are the same size and weight as females. [4] : 175 

References

  1. 1 2 3 Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Primates". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 151. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
  2. ↑ Chaves, Paulo B.; Magnus, Tielli; Jerusalinsky, Leandro; Talebi, Maurício; Strier, Karen B.; et al. (December 2019). "Phylogeographic evidence for two species of muriqui (genus Brachyteles)". American Journal of Primatology. 81 (12): e23066. doi:10.1002/ajp.23066. hdl: 10923/20562 . PMID   31736121. S2CID   182008678.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  3. ↑ Chaves, Paulo B.; Alvarenga, Clara S.; Possamai, Carla de B.; Dias, Luiz G.; Boubli, Jean P.; Strier, Karen B.; Mendes, Sérgio L.; Fagundes, Valéria (3 June 2011). "Genetic diversity and population history of a critically endangered primate, the northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus)". PLOS ONE. 6 (6): e20722. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...620722C. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020722 . PMC   3108597 . PMID   21694757.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  4. 1 2 Richard Wrangham & Dale Peterson (1997). Demonic Male: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. Bloomsbury.

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