Also known as
  • Cercopithecidae,
  • Cercopithecoidea
The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. The Old World monkeys are native to Africa and Asia today, inhabiting a range of environments from tropical rain forest to savanna, scrubland, and mountainous terrain, and are also known from Europe in the fossil record. However, a (possibly introduced) free-roaming group of monkeys still survives in Gibraltar (Europe) to this day. They include many of the most... full article at wikipedia
Scientific name
Cercopithecidae
Synonym scientific name
Rank
Higher classification
Organisms of this type
Fossil specimens
Earliest fossil record
Latest fossil record
ITIS Taxon S/N
  • 180096
NCBI Taxon ID
  • 9527
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Last edited by foreign_name_bot Sep 11, 2008
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