- ago-31 million
years ago. The
following is the
listing of the
various platyrrhine families, as
defined by
Rylands &
Mittermeier (2009), and
their position...
-
Paralouatta is a
platyrrhine genus that
currently contains two
extinct species of
small primates that
lived on the
island of Cuba.
Paralouatta varonai...
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Southeast Asia,
galagos or "bush babies" of Africa, and the anthropoids:
platyrrhine or New
World monkeys,
catarrhines or Old
World monkeys, and the apes...
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Platyrrhini is a
parvorder of primates.
Members of this
parvorder are
called platyrrhines, or New
World monkeys, and
include marmosets, tamarins, and capuchin...
- apes of the
family Hominidae and the
gibbons of the
family Hylobatidae;
Platyrrhines, or New
World monkeys,
divided into the
families Aotidae, Atelidae, Callitrichidae...
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color vision similar to that
found in
platyrrhines. Like catarrhines,
howler monkeys (a
family of
platyrrhines) show
routine trichromatism that has been...
-
males and
females possess three opsins classes. In
nearly all
species of
platyrrhines (New
World monkeys)
males and
homozygous females are dichromats, while...
-
widespread primate genus in the
Neotropics and are
among the
largest of the
platyrrhines along with the
muriquis (Brachyteles), the
spider monkeys (Ateles) and...
- Parapithecidae, and have
dental features markedly different from
those of
platyrrhines.
Qatrania wingi of
lower Oligocene Fayum deposits is
considered the closest...
- prehensile,
unlike those of the New
World monkeys (
platyrrhines). The
distinction of
catarrhines from
platyrrhines depends on the
structure of the rhinarium,...
