platyrrhini

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Family of japanese macaque Royalty Free Stock Photo

Japanese macaque Macaca fuscata Royalty Free Stock Photo

Monkey looking upside down while sleeping on a roof.

A hungry monkey eating a piece of bread. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Two monkeys protecting their small babies. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Snow Monkey baby and its mother (Japanese Macaque) Royalty Free Stock Photo

Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, a grouping known as paraphyletic however in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms monkeys and simians synonyms in regard of their scope. Monkeys are divided into the families of New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) and Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae in the strict sense Catarrhini in the broad sense, which again includes apes).