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What are all the types of monkeys?

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  1. New World monkeys

    Family Cebidae: marmosets, tamarins, capuchins and squirrel monkeys (56 species)

    Family Aotidae: night monkeys, owl monkeys, douroucoulis (8 species)

    Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris (41 species)

    Family Atelidae: howler, spider and woolly monkeys (24 species)

    Old World monkeys (135 species)

    Superfamily Hominoidea: apes

    Family Hylobatidae: gibbons ("lesser apes") (13 species)

    Family Hominidae: great apes including humans (7 species)


  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monke

  3. The following list shows where the various monkey families (bolded) are placed in the Primate classification. Note that the smallest grouping that contains them all is the Simiiformes, the simians, which also contains the apes. Calling apes "monkeys" is incorrect. Calling either a simian is correct.

    ORDER PRIMATES

    Suborder Strepsirrhini: non-tarsier prosimians

    Suborder Haplorrhini: tarsiers, monkeys and apes

    Infraorder Tarsiiformes

    Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers

    Infraorder Simiiformes: simians

    Parvorder Platyrrhini: New World monkeys

    Family Cebidae: marmosets, tamarins, capuchins and squirrel monkeys (56 species)

    Family Aotidae: night monkeys, owl monkeys, douroucoulis (8 species)

    Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris (41 species)

    Family Atelidae: howler, spider and woolly monkeys (24 species)

    Parvorder Catarrhini

    Superfamily Cercopithecoidea

    Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys (135 species)

    Superfamily Hominoidea: apes

    Family Hylobatidae: gibbons ("lesser apes") (13 species)

    Family Hominidae: great apes including humans (7 species)

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