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Brachyteles arachnoides (muriqui)

Synonyms: Ateles arachnoides (homotypic); Ateles eriodes; Brachyteles macrotarsus; Eriodes tuberifer
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Wikipedia Abstract

The southern muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides) is a muriqui (woolly spider monkey) species endemic to Brazil. It is found in the Brazilian states of Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais. This New World monkey is known locally as mono carvoeiro, which translates to "charcoal monkey". The southern muriqui, B. arachnoides, has a solid black face, distinguishing it from the northern species, B. hypoxanthus, which has a black face mottled with pink.
View Wikipedia Record: Brachyteles arachnoides

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Brachyteles arachnoides

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
56
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.33
EDGE Score: 4.41

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  24.626 lbs (11.17 kg)
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  7 years 6 months
Gestation [1]  7 months 22 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  0.3
Maximum Longevity [3]  14 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  24 inches (60 cm)
Weaning [1]  1 year 9 months

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cerrado Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay Yes

Prey / Diet

Didymopanax angustissimum[4]
Inga sessilis[4]
Mespilodaphne quixos[4]
Myrocarpus frondosus[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Callicebus nigrifrons (southern masked titi monkey)1
Callithrix penicillata (black-pencilled marmoset)1
Carpornis cucullata (Hooded Berryeater)1

Predators

Homo sapiens (man)[5]
Leopardus pardalis (Ocelot)[5]
Panthera onca (Jaguar)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Entamoeba hartmanni[6]
Graphidioides berlai <Unverified Name>[7]
Paraoxyuronema brachytelesi[7]
Strongyloides cebus <Unverified Name>[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
4Diet of Southern Muriquis in Continuous Brazilian Atlantic Forest, Mauricio Talebi, Alexandre Bastos, and P. C. Lee, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 26, No. 5, October 2005, pp. 1175-1187
5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
6Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0