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Definition of Platyrrhini

Platyrrhini
Platyrhini Plat`y*rhi"ni, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? broad + ?, ?, nose.] (Zo["o]l.) A division of monkeys, including the American species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See Monkey. [Written also Platyrrhini.]

Meaning of Platyrrhini from wikipedia

- (/səˈbɔɪdi.ə/), the only extant superfamily in the parvorder Platyrrhini (/plætɪˈraɪnaɪ/). Platyrrhini is derived from the Gr**** for "broad nosed", and their...
- called monkeys and apes. More precisely, they consist of the parvorders Platyrrhini (New World monkeys) and Catarrhini, the latter of which consists of the...
- is the Platyrrhini (New World monkeys). Some nine million years before the divergence between the Cercopithecidae and the apes, the Platyrrhini emerged...
- the New World monkeys, the Platyrrhini. Some six million years before the ape - Cercopithecoidea bifurcation, the Platyrrhini emerged within "monkeys" by...
- Haplorhini, the simians (or anthropoids), is divided into two parvorders: Platyrrhini (the New World monkeys) and Catarrhini (the Old World monkeys and apes)...
- World monkeys (family Cercopithecidae) than to the New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) with both Old World monkeys and apes placed in the clade Catarrhini...
- Aegyptopithecus as well as (under an even more expanded definition) even the Platyrrhini emerged within the Old World monkeys. Historically, monkeys from the...
- EW, Strier KB, eds. (2008). "The Diversity of the New World Primates (Platyrrhini): An Annotated Taxonomy". South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives...
- All howler monkeys belong to the family Atelidae and the infraorder Platyrrhini (New World monkeys). ****ual dimorphism in this species is small; males...
- Platyrrhini)" (PDF). Shernornia. 2 (3): 21–27. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Hershkovitz, P. Living New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini)...