Primate

Primates Fossil range: Paleocene - Recent
Olive Baboon, an Old World monkey
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Eutheria Superorder: Euarchontoglires Order: Primates Linnaeus, 1758
Families
15, See classification

Ring-tailed Lemur, a strepsirrhine primate

Primates are a group of mammals that contains all lemurs, monkeys, and apes including humans. There are about 400 species of primates. All primates are similar to humans in some ways. Primates have hands with five fingers, fingernails (most other animals have claws). Primates are split into two groups: Strepsirrhini and Haplorrhini. Haplorrhini includes monkeys, tarsiers, and apes, including humans. Strepsirrhini includes lemurs, lorises, galagoes (also called bush babies) and the Aye-Aye.

Clade

Euarchontoglires	Glires   Rodentia  Lagomorpha  Euarchonta   Scandentia Primatomorpha  Dermoptera  Primates   Strepsirrhini   (lemuriformes and lorisiformes)  Haplorrhini   Tarsiiformes  Simiiformes (platyrrhini and catarrhini)

Other pages

Look up Primates in Wikispecies, a directory of species

• Crab-eating Macaque
• Loris