The woolly lemurs, also known as avahis or woolly indris, are nine species of strepsirrhine primates in the genus Avahi. They are endemic to Madagascar, where they inhabit the eastern rainforests and
Avahi occidentalis
Molecular data indicate that there is significant genetic variation among Peyrieras's woolly lemurs.
Pierre Sonnerat's maquis à bourres was the holotype of several synonymous descriptions.