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Monkeys and Apes
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Monkeys and Apes

Simiiformes

The simians (infraorder Simiiformes) or Anthropoids are the monkeys, incl. apes, cladistically including: the New World monkeys or platyrrhines, and the Catarrhine clade consisting of the Cercopithecidae and apes (including humans).

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2 branches of this group, most-observed first · about 376 known species

Apes and Old World Monkeys

parvorderCatarrhini

New World Monkeys

parvorderPlatyrrhini

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 936377.