Catarrhini
Group of Old World monkeys and apes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The parvorder Catarrhini /kætəˈraɪnaɪ/ (known commonly as catarrhine monkeys, Old World anthropoids, or Old World monkeys) consists of the Cercopithecoidea and apes (Hominoidea). In 1812, Geoffroy grouped those two groups together and established the name Catarrhini, "Old World monkeys", ("singes de l'Ancien Monde" in French).[4][3][5][2][6][excessive citations] Its sister in the infraorder Simiiformes is the parvorder Platyrrhini (New World monkeys).[2] There has been some resistance to directly designate apes (and thus humans) as monkeys despite the scientific evidence, so "Old World monkey" may be taken to mean the Cercopithecoidea or the Catarrhini.[4][7][8][9][10][6][11][12][13][14][excessive citations] That apes are monkeys was already realized by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the 18th century.[3] Linnaeus placed this group in 1758 together with what we now recognise as the tarsiers and the New World monkeys, in a single genus "Simia" (sans Homo).[15] The Catarrhini are all native to Africa and Asia. Members of this parvorder are called catarrhines.
Catarrhines | |
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Stump-tailed macaques | |
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Walter Zoo, Gossau, St. Gallen, Switzerland | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Parvorder: | Catarrhini É. Geoffroy, 1812[1][2] |
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The Catarrhini are the sister group to the New World monkeys, the Platyrrhini.[16][17][18][19] Some six million years before the ape - Cercopithecoidea bifurcation, the Platyrrhini emerged within "monkeys" by migration to South America from Afro-Arabia (the Old World), likely by ocean.