Family ATELIDAE (HOWLERS, SPIDER AND WOOLLY MONKEYS AND MURIQUIS) • Medium-sized to large monkeys with long limbs or shorter limbs and more robust, howlers with enlarged voice-box and head set low on shoulders (hunched), dense and woolly or long and coarse fur, and long, strong, prehensile tail. • 80-160 cm. • Neotropical Region • Humid, lowland, submontane and montane, deciduous, and semi-deciduous forests. • 5 genera, 25 species, 42 taxa. • 4 species Critically Endangered, 8 species Endangered, 5 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.

Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands & Don E. Wilson, 2013, Atelidae, pp. 484-549 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 3 Primates, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 484, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5727205