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Haplorhini

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Haplorrhines
Temporal range: Paleocene-Holocene, 63–0 Ma
Common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Pocock, 1918[1]
Infraorders

Haplorrhini (the haplorhines or the "dry-nebbed" primates, the Greek name means "simple-nebbed") is a clade conteenin the tarsiers an the simians (or anthropoids). The name is an aa spelt Haplorrhini.[2] The simians include catarrhines (Auld Warld pugs an apes includin humans), an the platyrrhines (New Warld pugs).

References

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  1. Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 127–184. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. "Haplorrhini". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2 Januar 2017.