{{Short description|Genus of New World monkeys}} {{Other uses}} {{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 = Spix, 1823 | type_species = ''Brachyteles macrotarsus'' | type_species_authority = Spix, 1823<br />(= ''Ateles arachnoides'' É. Geoffroy, 1806) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''Brachyteles arachnoides''<br/> ''Brachyteles hypoxanthus'' }}

The '''muriquis''', also known as '''woolly spider monkeys''', are the monkeys of the genus '''''Brachyteles'''''.<ref name=msw3/> They are closely related to both the spider monkeys 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= 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 monkeys, 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== {{Reflist}}

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

==External links== * [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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