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{{Short description|Genus of New World monkeys}}
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{{Automatic taxobox 
| name = Muriquis<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Primates|id=12100408|pages=151}}</ref>
| image = Brachyteles hypoxanthus2.jpg 
| image_caption = [[Northern muriqui]],<br/>''Brachyteles hypoxanthus''
| taxon = Brachyteles
| authority = [[Johann Baptist von Spix|Spix]], 1823
| type_species = ''[[Southern muriqui|Brachyteles macrotarsus]]''
| type_species_authority = [[Johann Baptist von Spix|Spix]], 1823<br />(= ''Ateles arachnoides'' [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|É. Geoffroy]], 1806)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''[[Brachyteles arachnoides]]''<br/>
''[[Brachyteles hypoxanthus]]''
}}

The '''muriquis''', also known as '''woolly spider monkeys''', are the [[monkey]]s of the [[genus]] '''''Brachyteles'''''.<ref name=msw3/> They are closely related to both the [[spider monkey]]s and the [[woolly monkeys]].<ref name=msw3/>

==Species==
The two species are:<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chaves |first1=Paulo B. |last2=Magnus |first2=Tielli |last3=Jerusalinsky |first3=Leandro |last4=Talebi |first4=Maurício |last5=Strier |first5=Karen B. |last6=Breves |first6=Paula |last7=Tabacow |first7=Fernanda |last8=Teixeira |first8=Rodrigo H. F. |last9=Moreira |first9=Leandro |last10=Hack |first10=Robson O. E. |last11=Milagres |first11=Adriana |last12=Pissinatti |first12=Alcides |last13=Melo |first13=Fabiano R. |last14=Pessutti |first14=Cecília |last15=Mendes |first15=Sérgio L. |last16=Margarido |first16=Tereza C. |last17=Fagundes |first17=Valéria |last18=Di Fiore |first18=Anthony |last19=Bonatto |first19=Sandro L. |display-authors=5 |title=Phylogeographic evidence for two species of muriqui (genus Brachyteles) |journal=American Journal of Primatology |date=December 2019 |volume=81 |issue=12 |article-number=e23066 |doi=10.1002/ajp.23066 |pmid=31736121|s2cid=182008678 |hdl=10923/20562 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

{{Species table |genus=[[Brachyteles]] |authority-name= [[Johann Baptist von Spix|Spix]] |authority-year=1823 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=70}}

{{Species table/row
|name= Southern muriqui|binomial=[[Brachyteles arachnoides]]
|image=File:P1150366 cópia.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=É. Geoffroy |authority-year= 1806|authority-not-original=yes
|range=  Brazil (Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais)
|range-image=File:Southern Muriqui area.png
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= CR
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}

{{Species table/row
|name= Northern muriqui|binomial=[[Brachyteles hypoxanthus]]
|image=File:Northern Muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) (5539581122).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Kuhl|authority-year= 1820  |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia.)
|range-image=File:Northern Muriqui area.png
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status=CR
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}

{{Species table/end}}

They are the two largest species of [[New World monkey]]s, and the northern species is one of the most endangered of all the world's monkeys.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Chaves|first=Paulo B.|author2=Alvarenga, Clara S. |author3=Possamai, Carla de B. |author4=Dias, Luiz G. |author5=Boubli, Jean P. |author6=Strier, Karen B.|author6-link=Karen B. Strier |author7=Mendes, Sérgio L. |author8= Fagundes, Valéria |title=Genetic diversity and population history of a critically endangered primate, the northern muriqui (''Brachyteles hypoxanthus'')|journal=PLOS ONE|date=3 June 2011|volume=6|issue=6|article-number=e20722|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0020722|pmid=21694757 |pmc=3108597|bibcode=2011PLoSO...620722C|doi-access=free}}</ref>

The muriqui lives primarily in coffee estates in southeastern Brazil.<ref name="demonic">{{cite book |author=[[Richard Wrangham]] & [[Dale Peterson]] |title=Demonic Male: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=1997}}</ref>{{rp|174}} Males are the same size and weight as females.<ref name="demonic"/>{{rp|175}}

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[Russell A. Mittermeier]], "Monkey in Peril". [[National Geographic (magazine)|''National Geographic'']], March 1987, pages 387–395. Volume 171, No. 3. {{ISSN|0027-9358}}. {{OCLC|643483454}}

==External links==
{{Wikispecies|Brachyteles|Woolly spider monkey}}
* [http://www.icmbio.gov.br/portal/images/stories/docs-plano-de-acao/pan-muriqui/livro_muriqui_web.pdf Conservation of the Muriqui from Brazil ]
* [http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/muriqui Primate Info Net ''Brachyteles'' Factsheet]
* [http://www.promuriqui.org.br Southern Muriqui Home Page] - Pró- Muriqui Association

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[[Category:Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix]]


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