The Catarrhini are all native to Africa and Asia. Members of this parvorder are called catarrhines. The Catarrhini are the sister group to the New World monkeys, the Platyrrhini.

Catarrhini (Old World monkeys and apes) 3 living families, 5 fossil families dating from the Middle Eocene to Holocene. Included here are Victoriapithecidae, an Early Miocene family belonging to the Cercopithecoidea; Proconsulidae, an Early Miocene family belonging to the Hominoidea; and families Pliopithecidae (Early and…

The principal descriptors used to differentiate the parvorders Platyrrhini and Catarrhini are the spacing and orientation of the nares and geographic origin. The term catarrhine , meaning ‘narrow, turned-down nose,’ has been used extensively in the literature to describe Old World monkeys and apes.

2018年7月30日 · Catarrhine primates include species from three families: Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys; 159 extant species), Hylobatidae (gibbons and siamangs; 19 extant species), and Hominidae (great apes and humans; 7 extant species; Mittermeier et al. 2013).

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Catarrhini are a group of Old World monkeys that includes humans, apes, and other primates. They are distinguished from other primates by their prominent noses, narrow noses, and relatively large brain volume. Catarrhini species are found in Africa, Asia, and North and South America.

Catarrhines include the Old World monkeys and the apes. Apes are further divided into the lesser apes or gibbons and the great apes, consisting of the orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and humans. They are all native to Africa and Asia.

The Catarrhini consist of two Superfamilies – Cercopithecoidea (Old World Monkeys) and Hominoidea (Apes). Cercopithecoids live in Africa and Asia (one species of macaque lives on the island of Gibraltar), have diverse styles of locomotion (some are …

They fall into two very distinct groups, the Cynomorpha and the Anthropomorpha.

The catarrhinos (Catarrhini, from the Greek κατά katá, "downwards" and ρινος rhinós, "nose") are a parvorden of simiiform primates whose main characteristic is having their nostrils open downwards and separated by a thin nasal septum. They also have thirty-two teeth, buttocks covered by brightly colored calluses, and a non-prehensile ...