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Infraorder Catarrhini (Old World Monkeys, Gibbons, Apes, Man)
Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta)
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"Infraorder Catarrhini (Old World Monkeys, Gibbons, Apes, Man)".
In Robb's Online Multimedia Database of Animals and Plants.
Dec. 19, 1999.
Families of the Infraorder Catarrhini (Old World Monkeys, Gibbons, Apes, Man)
According to Hershkovitz (1977); some authors consider Catarrhini to be a suborder or division- Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys, Eurasian monkeys)
- Hylobatidae (gibbons)
- Pongidae (apes, great apes, anthropoid apes)
- Hominidae (man)
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