Knowra Cercopithecidae Cercopithecidae Cercopithecidae is the primate family of Old World monkeys, including macaques, guenons, and baboons. Its members are native to Africa and Asia and typically have downward-facing nostrils and nonprehensile tails.
Catarrhini : The primate infraorder containing Old World monkeys and apes, characterized by close-set, downward-facing nostrils. Cercopithecidae is one of the two living catarrhine families.
Macaque : A genus of social Old World monkeys native to Asia and parts of North Africa. Macaques exemplify the family's adaptability, occupying habitats from tropical forests to cities.
Victoriapithecus : An extinct African genus of early cercopithecoid monkeys known from Miocene fossils. Its fossils document early stages in the evolutionary history of Old World monkeys.
Hominidae : The great ape family, including orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans. Hominids are the other living catarrhine family, not Old World monkeys.
Cercopithecinae : The Old World monkey subfamily that includes macaques, baboons, and guenons. Its cheek pouches and diverse terrestrial and arboreal species distinguish one major branch of the family.
Guénon : An African group of arboreal Old World monkeys, many with colorful facial markings. Guenons show the family's rich diversity of forest-dwelling species.
Proconsul : An extinct Miocene primate from Africa, often studied near the origins of apes and Old World monkeys. Its evolutionary placement helps distinguish cercopithecid ancestry from other catarrhine lineages.
Atelidae : A New World monkey family that includes howler, spider, woolly, and woolly spider monkeys. Atelids belong to the separate American monkey radiation, unlike cercopithecids.
Colobinae : The Old World monkey subfamily that includes colobus monkeys and langurs, many adapted to digest leaves. Its specialized leaf-eating species form the family's other major living branch.
Baboon : A genus of large, mostly terrestrial African and Arabian monkeys with elongated muzzles. Baboons illustrate how some cercopithecids thrive in open landscapes and complex social groups.
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