New World monkey

New World monkeys
Black-headed spider monkey
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Parvorder:	Platyrrhini Geoffroy, 1812
Superfamily:	Ceboidea

New World monkeys are the families of primates which are found in Central and South America. The families are ranked together as the Ceboidea superfamily, the only living platyrrhine superfamily. They differ from the Old World monkeys and apes, which are Catarrhini.

• Platyrrhini: the New World monkeys.^[1]
  Superfamily Ceboidea
  • Family Cebidae: capuchins and squirrel monkeys.
    Subfamily Callitrichinae: marmosets and tamarins.
    Subfamily Aotinae: night or owl monkeys
  • Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris
  • Family Atelidae: howler, spider, muriqui (woolly spider) and woolly monkeys

1. ↑ Schneider, Horacio 2000. The current status of the New world monkey phylogeny. Anals de Academia Brasileira de Ciéncias 72, 2, [1]