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Platyrrhini (parvorder)


Identification code: 300445012



Alternative term/s

  • New World Monkeys
  • New World monkeys

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Scope note:

Superfamily containing five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Mexico, Central and South America: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae. About 40 million years ago, the Simiiformes infraorder split into the parvorders Platyrrhini (New World monkeys in South America) and Catarrhini (apes and Old World monkeys in Africa).

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