Old World monkey (redirect from Cercopithecidae)
Old World monkeys are primates in the family Cercopithecidae (/ˌsɜːrkoʊpɪˈθɛsɪdiː/). Twenty-four genera and 138 species are recognized, making it the...
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simians are synonyms. In 1812, Étienne Geoffroy grouped the apes and the Cercopithecidae group of monkeys together and established the name Catarrhini, "Old...
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monkeys) and Catarrhini, the latter of which consists of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys in the stricter sense) and the superfamily Hominoidea...
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anubis), also called the Anubis baboon, is a member of the family Cercopithecidae Old World monkeys. The species is the most wide-ranging of all baboons...
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globally). Apes are more closely related to Old World monkeys (family Cercopithecidae) than to the New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) with both Old World monkeys...
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List of primates (section Family Cercopithecidae)
clades: Cercopithecoidea, containing the Old World monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae; Hominoidea, containing the great apes of the family Hominidae and...
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The drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) is a primate of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), related to baboons and even more closely to the mandrill...
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pygerythrus), or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term "vervet" is also used to refer to all the...
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sacred langur and Hanuman langur, is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. The northern plains gray langur belongs to the genus Semnopithecus...
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Todd; Yue, Bisong; Batzer, Mark A. (2009). "Phylogeny of the macaques (Cercopithecidae: Macaca) based on Alu elements". Gene. 448 (2): 242–249. doi:10.1016/j...
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monkey (Cercopithecus cephus) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic...
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Mesopithecus found in Greece, dating to around 8.2 million years ago. Family Cercopithecidae Subfamily Cercopithecinae Subfamily Colobinae Tribe Colobini Genus...
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genus Papio, one of the 23 genera of Old World monkeys, in the family Cercopithecidae. There are six species of baboon: the hamadryas baboon, the Guinea...
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Shungura Formation (section Cercopithecidae)
Paris G. Eck. 1977. Diversity and frequency distributions of Omo Group Cercopithecidae. Journal of Human Evolution 6:55-63 C. S. Feibel, F.H. Brown, and I...
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the spectacled leaf monkey, is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is found in Peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand, and can...
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macaque (Macaca nigrescens) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Groves, C. P...
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or red leaf monkey (Presbytis rubicunda) is a member of the family Cercopithecidae. It is found on the southeast Asian island of Borneo and the nearby...
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talapoins, Allen's swamp monkeys and the guenons, all in Africa. Family Cercopithecidae Subfamily Cercopithecinae Tribe Cercopithecini Genus Allenopithecus...
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Eric J.; Jablonski, Nina G.; Dechow, Paul C. (2000). "Body mass in Cercopithecidae (Primates, Mammalia): estimation and scaling in extinct and extant...
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black-and-white colobus, red colobus, and olive colobus monkeys. Family Cercopithecidae Subfamily Cercopithecinae Subfamily Colobinae Tribe Colobini Genus...
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langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) is a primate species in the family Cercopithecidae native to subtropical and tropical dry forests in northeast India,...
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World monkeys that includes all of the Asian colobine monkeys. Family Cercopithecidae Subfamily Cercopithecinae Subfamily Colobinae Tribe Colobini Tribe...
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and white-collared mangabey, is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae of Old World monkeys. It formerly included the sooty mangabey as a...
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10–36 70–95 80 West Africa Cercopithecidae Chacma baboon Papio ursinus 12–32 50–115 50–75 Southern Africa Cercopithecidae Olive baboon Papio anubis 10–24...
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mangabey (Lophocebus aterrimus) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is only found in Democratic Republic of the Congo with a small...
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called Wolf's guenon, is a colourful Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae. It is found in central Africa, primarily between the Democratic Republic...
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List of African animals extinct in the Holocene (section Old world monkeys (family Cercopithecidae))
This list of African species extinct in the Holocene covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before...
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monkey or russet-eared guenon, is a primate species in the family Cercopithecidae. It is native to subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests in...
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(Cercopithecus pogonias), is a species of African primate in the family Cercopithecidae found in west central Africa. The crested mona monkey is a medium-sized...
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Theropithecus is a genus of primates in the family Cercopithecidae. It contains a single living species, the gelada (Theropithecus gelada), native to...
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