New World monkey
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| New World monkeys | |
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| Brown Spider Monkey | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorrhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Parvorder: | Platyrrhini E. Geoffroy, 1812 |
| Superfamily: | Ceboidea |
New World monkeys are the five families of primates that are found in Central and South America. The five families are ranked together as the Ceboidea superfamily, the only living platyrrhine superfamily. They differ from the Old World monkeys and apes, which are Catarrhini.
- Platyrrhini: the New World monkeys
- Superfamily Ceboidea
- Family Callitrichidae: marmosets and tamarins
- Family Cebidae: capuchins and squirrel monkeys
- Family Aotidae: night or owl monkeys
- Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris
- Family Atelidae: howler, spider, woolly spider and woolly monkeys
