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Haplorhini  

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Entry terms

  • Anthropoidea
  • Monkey
  • Monkeys

Note

  • note entry terms; specific terms for many Old World & New World monkeys are available

Scope note

  • A suborder of PRIMATES consisting of six families: CEBIDAE (some New World monkeys), ATELIDAE (some New World monkeys), CERCOPITHECIDAE (Old World monkeys), HYLOBATIDAE (gibbons and siamangs), CALLITRICHINAE (marmosets and tamarins), and HOMINIDAE (humans and great apes).

History note

  • 92; was ANTHROPOIDEA 1981-91; was ANTHROPOIDS see under PRIMATES 1963-80; MONKEYS was heading 1963-80

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000882

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