Cercopithecinae

A taxonomic subfamily within the family Cercopithecidae – various baboons, vervets and macaques.


Cercopithecidae

A taxonomic family within the order Primates – Old World monkeys, etc.

Cynomorpha

family): Cercopithecinae, Colobinae (subfamilies


Colobinae

A taxonomic subfamily within the family Cercopithecidae – the colobus monkeys, proboscis monkeys, the gray langurs, etc.


Cebidae

A taxonomic family within the order Primates – the capuchins and squirrel monkeys.

Cebus

(family): Cebinae (capuchin), Saimiriinae (squirrel monkey) - subfamilies


Saimiriinae

A taxonomic subfamily within the family Cebidae – the squirrel monkeys.


Cebinae

A taxonomic subfamily within the family Cebidae – the capuchin monkeys.


Cercopithecini

A taxonomic tribe within the family Cercopithecidae – the guenons and related monkeys.


Papionini

A taxonomic tribe within the family Cercopithecidae – the macaques and related monkeys.


Macaca

New Latin, from Portuguese macaca, the feminine equivalent of macaco (“monkey”). Unknown ultimate origin, but thought to have been borrowed from an African language of the Congo region. See macaco for other possible etymologies.
Cognate with French macaque, English macaque and macaco, Spanish macaca/macaco, and Italian macaco.

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – macaques, Old World monkeys, principally Asian.


Anubis

From Latin Anūbis, from Ancient Greek Ἄνουβις (Ánoubis), from Egyptian jnpw, i-n:p-w-E16

A taxonomic genus within the family Cerambycidae – certain longhorn beetles.


Cebus

From Ancient Greek κῆβος (kêbos, “a long-tailed monkey”)

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A taxonomic genus within the family Cebidae – slender capuchin monkeys.


Papio

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – the baboons.


Atelidae

A taxonomic family within the order Primates – the howler monkeys, spider monkeys and woolly monkeys.


Lagothrix

A taxonomic genus within the family Atelidae – the woolly monkeys.


Pygathrix nemaeus

A taxonomic species within the family Cercopithecidae – red-shanked douc.


Macaca sylvanus

A taxonomic species within the family Cercopithecidae – Barbary macaque.


Chlorocebus

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – several Old World monkeys, including the green monkey and vervet.


Pygathrix

From Ancient Greek πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”) and θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – the doucs.


Cynomorpha

(obsolete) An invalid taxonomic group within the family Cercopithecidae — a division of catarrhine monkeys, including the baboons and other lower monkeys, as distinguished from the anthropoid apes.


Macaca mulatta

A taxonomic species within the family Cercopithecidae – rhesus macaque, widespread in Asia.


Cercopithecus

From Ancient Greek κερκοπῐ́θηκος (kerkopíthēkos, “longtailed ape”).

κερκοπῐ́θηκος

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – guenons.


Callithrix jacchus

A taxonomic species within the family Callitrichidae – common marmoset or white-tufted-ear marmoset.


Callithrix

From Latin callĭthrix, from Ancient Greek καλλίθριξ (kallíthrix).

A taxonomic genus within the family Callitrichidae – Atlantic marmosets, of the Atlantic Forest of southern and eastern Brazil, Paraguay, and far northern Argentina.


Hapale vulgaris

Callithrix jacchus
Callithrix jacchus#Translingual


Papio anubis

A taxonomic species within the family Cercopithecidae – olive baboon or Anubis baboon native to east Africa, formerly in obsolete genus Anubis.


Sapajus

Borrowed from French sapajou. Coined by Scottish scientific writer and translator Robert Kerr in 1792.

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A taxonomic genus within the family Cebidae – certain capuchin monkeys, species of Cebus, some formerly subspecies of Cebus apella.


Ateles

Ancient Greek ἀτελής (atelḗs, “incomplete, imperfect”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) and τέλος (télos, “end”)

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A taxonomic genus within the family Atelidae – the spider monkeys.


Saimiri

A taxonomic genus within the family Cebidae – the squirrel monkeys.


Presbytis

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – surilis, langurs, and leaf monkeys of southeast Asia.


Semnopithecus

New Latin, from Ancient Greek σεμνός (semnós, “revered, august, holy”) + Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape, monkey”).

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – gray langurs.


Callicebus aureipalatii

Named as a result of an auction in 2005 for the naming of the new species of monkey. The online casino GoldenPalace.com won the auction, paying $650,000 for the privilege.

Plecturocebus aureipalatii
Wikispecies:Plecturocebus aureipalatii

A taxonomic species within the family Pitheciidae – a New World monkey, native to Bolivia; Synonym of Plecturocebus aureipalatii.


Rungwecebus

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – single species Rungwecebus kipunji (kipunji).


Lophocebus

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – crested mangabeys.


Theropithecus

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – a single extant species Theropithecus gelada (gelada).


Miopithecus

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – talapoins.


Cercocebus

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – white-eyelid mangabey.


Colobus

New Latin, from Ancient Greek κολοβός (kolobós, “maimed”).

A taxonomic genus within the family Cercopithecidae – the black-and-white colobuses.