Brachyteles arachnoides

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• Notes

Overview

Endangered

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial

Ecology: Occurs in the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil.


List of Habitats :1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Brachyteles arachnoides /i> (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1806)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 30-Jul-2002

Similar Species

Members of the genus Brachyteles

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

B. arachnoides (Woolly Spider Monkey) · B. hypoxanthus (Northern Muriqui) · B. macrotarsus

More Info

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Further Reading

• A hand-book to the primates / by Henry O. Forbes. London: E. Lloyd, 1896-1897. ENG url p. 226, p. 256.
• A review of the primates / by Daniel Giraud Elliot. New York, U.S.A.: American Museum of Natural History, 1912 [i.e. 1913]. ENG url p. 50.
• Archiv f�r Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 610.
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the Museum / by J.E. Gray London, 1870. ENG url p. 45.
• Catalogue of the bones of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum / [compiled by Edward Gerrard]. London: printed by Taylor and Francis, by order of the Trustees, 1862 ENG url p. 21.
• Eisenberg, J.F. and Redford, K.H. 1999. Mammals of the Neotropics. The Central Neotropics, Volume 3: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Fonseca, G.A. da, Lemos de Sá, R.M., Pope, T.R., Glander, K.E. and Struhsaker, T.T. 1991. A pilot study of genetic and morphological variation in the muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides) as a contribution to a long-term conservation management plan. Unpublished report to World Wildlife Fund - U. S., Washington, D. C.
• Fonseca, G.A. da, Lemos de Sá, R.M., Pope, T.R., Glander, K.E. and Struhsaker, T.T. 1991. A pilot study of genetic and morphological variation in the muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides) as a contribution to a long-term conservation management plan. Unpublished report to World Wildlife Fund - U. S., Washington, D. C.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Groves, C.P. 2001. The Taxonomy of Primates. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
• Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.
• Lemos de Sá, R.M. and Glander, K.E. 1993. Capture techniques and morphometrics for the woolly spider monkey, or muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides, E.Geoffroy 1806). American Journal of Primatology 29: 145-153.
• Lemos de Sá, R.M., Pope, T.R., Struhsaker, T.T. and Glander, K.E. 1993. Sexual dimorphism in canine length of woolly spider monkeys (Brachyteles arachnoides, E. Geoffroy 1806). International Journal of Primatology 14(5): 755-763.
• Mammal Species of the World, 3rd ed.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 513, p. 519.
• Rylands, A.B., Strier, K.B., Mittermeier, R.A., Borovansky, J. and Seal, U.S. (eds) 1998. Conserving Brazil's Muriqui: Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) for Brachyteles arachnoides. IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group Apple Valley, MN.
• Strier, K.B. and Fonseca, G.A.B. da. 1996/1997. The endangered muriquis in Brazil's Atlantic forests. Primate Conservation 17: 131-137.
• Studies in neotropical mammalogy: essays in honor of Philip Hershkovitz / edited by Bruce D. Patterson, Robert M. Timm. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1987. ENG url p. 31, p. 36, p. 498, p. 57.
• Thornback, J. and Jenkins, M. 1982. The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Rylands, A.B., Bampi, M.I., Chiarello, A.G., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Mendes, S.L. and Marcelino, M. 2003. Brachyteles arachnoides. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 14 January 2007.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• GBIF-Sweden: Mammals (NRM)

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2481781
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-572959
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 572959
• IUCN ID: 2993
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: A01W
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1010

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