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  ADW: Cercopithecidae: Information
The family Cercopithecidae includes 18 genera and 81 species.
These monkeys are widely distributed in the Old World from southern Europe (Gibraltar) into NW Africa; throughout Africa south of the Sahara; and through central and SE Asia, including southern China and most of Japan.
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  Comparative Placentation
No data are available on implantation of this species but it is likely to be similar to other closely related cercopithecidae.
No specific studies are known to me but the probability of similarities to other cercopithecidae is great.
While such infarcts are most commonly observed in preeclampsia of human gestations and are due to occlusion of maternal spiral arterioles with atherosis and thrombosis, no such lesions have been observed in talapoins, and there is also no evidence that they suffer preeclampsia.
medicine.ucsd.edu /cpa/tala.html   (1324 words)

  
 Monkey article - Monkey Monkey (TV series) primate prosimian tarsier haplorhine families - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This rather unsatisfactory definition results from the fact that the animals called monkeys do not correspond to any single taxon in modern scientific classification.
The name is used both for the Old World monkeys (family Cercopithecidae) and New World monkeys (families Cebidae, Nyctipithecidae, Pitheciidae and Atelidae).
However the Old World monkeys are part of a larger group, the catarrhines, which also includes the apes.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Monkey   (345 words)

  
 Catarrhini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Catarrhini is the unranked group of the Primates, one of the three major divisions of the suborder Haplorrhini.
It contains the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), the gibbons or lesser apes (Hylobatidae) and the Hominidae (hominids), which include humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.
Some count the orangutan as its own family, called Pongidae.
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Catarrhini   (267 words)

  
 Cercopithecidae
After McKenna and Bell, 1997, Benefit and McCrossin, 2002 and Jablonski, 2002
<==o Cercopithecidae Grey, 1821 (Old World monkeys; vanhan maailman häntäapinat) --o †Victoriapithecinae von Koenigswald, 1969 [Victoriapithecidae von Koenigswald, 1969 sensu Benefit and McCrossin, 2002]
Simons, E. and Delson, E., 1978: Cercopithecidae and Parapithecidae.
www.fmnh.helsinki.fi /users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Synapsida/Eutheria/Primates/Cercopithecoidea/Cercopithecidae.htm   (244 words)

  
 proboscis monkey --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Species (Nasalis larvatus, family Cercopithecidae) of long-tailed arboreal Old World monkey of swampy mangrove forests on Borneo.
Old World monkeys all belong to one family, Cercopithecidae, which is related to apes and humans, and together they are classified as catarrhines (meaning “downward-nosed” in Latin).
Brief information on this monkey belonging to the family Cercopithecidae.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9375941?tocId=9375941   (861 words)

  
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Information about the long-term, coordinated series of studies of Yellow Baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in the Amboseli region of East Africa.
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“The skull of Theropithicus brumpti compared with those of other species of the genus Theropithecus.” Cercopithecidae de la fromation de Shumgira.
"Theropithecus oswaldi from the Shungura Formation, lower Omo valley, southwestern Ethiopia." Cercopithecidae de la formation de Shungura.
"Plio-Pleistocene specimens of Cercopithecus from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia." Cercopithecidae de la fromation de Shungura.
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 Anthropoidea --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: )
), Cebidae (New World monkeys), Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), Hylobatidae (gibbon and siamang, qq.v.
suborder of primates including the families Callitrichidae (marmoset, q.v.), Cebidae (New World monkeys), Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), Hylobatidae (gibbon and siamang, qq.v.), Pongidae (gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan, qq.v.), Hominidae (humans and fossil relatives), and the fossil group Parapithecidae.
Hominidae (superfamily Hominoidea, infraorder Anthropoidea, order Primates) is the taxonomic family that includes modern humans (Homo sapiens) and their direct extinct ancestors.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9007793?tocId=9007793   (384 words)

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