The anthropoids are classified into three superfamilies: new world monkeys (ceboidea), old world monkeys (cercopithecoidea) and the hominoids (hominoidea).
Example of Old World Monkeys:
Example of Old World Monkeys:
- Macaca mulatta: The rhesus monkey of North India.
- Ateles: The spider monkey
- Semieopithecus: The langur or leaf monkey.
- Allenopithecus nigroviridis
- Macaca sylvanus
- Lophocebus albigena
- Semnopithecus schistaceus
- Pygathrix nemaeus
- Â Cebus capucunus: The new world monkey
- Callithrix jacchus
- Cebuella pygmaea
- Saguinus imperator
- Aotus lemurinus
- Callicebus (Callicebus) donacophilus
- Pithecia pithecia
- Alouatta coibensis
- Ateles paniscus