SIMIIFORMES Haeckel 1866

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 111-184 : 128

SIMIIFORMES Haeckel 1866

Families: 7 families with 45 genera and 280 species:

Family Cebidae Gray 1831 (6 genera with 56 species and 50 subspecies)

Family Aotidae Elliot 1913 (1 genus with 8 species and 7 subspecies)

Family Pitheciidae Mivart 1865 (4 genera with 40 species and 8 subspecies)

Family Atelidae Gray 1825 (5 genera with 23 species and 16 subspecies)

Family Cercopithecidae Gray 1821 (21 genera with 132 species and 172 subspecies)

Family Hylobatidae Gray 1871 (4 genera with 14 species and 15 subspecies)

Family Hominidae Gray 1825 (4 genera with 7 species and 11 subspecies)

Discussion: Usually called Anthropoidea; for the potential confusion surrounding this name, and why it is best avoided, see Hoffstetter (1982). McKenna and Bell (1997) divided living members into two superfamilies, Callitrichoidea and Cercopithecoidea (including what are usually separated as Hominoidea ), corresponding to parvorders Platyrrhini and Catarrhini recognized herein (where Platyrrhini includes New World taxa in families Cebidae , Aotidae , Pitheciidae , and Atelidae ; and Catarrhini includes Old World taxa in Superfamiliy Cercopithecoidea [including Family Cercopithecidae ] and Superfamily Hominoidea [families Hylobatidae and Hominidae ]). Goodman et al. (1998) also regarded the catarrhines as over-split.