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Cebidae


White-headed Capuchin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Primates
Suborder:Haplorhini
Family:Cebidae
Genera
Callithrix
Leontopithecus
Saguinus
Callimico
Cebus
Saimiri

The Cebidae form one of the four familes of New World monkeys now recognised. It includes the marmosets, tamarin s, capuchins and squirrel monkey s.

Classification

Previously, New World monkeys were divided between the Callitrichidae and this family, but modern classifications place the generaSee genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. See genus (music) for the use of the term in music. In biology, a genus (plural genera is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically s from Callitrichidae as a subfamily in Cebidae (named HapalinaeCallithrix Leontopithecus Saguinus Callimico The Hapalinae are a subfamily within the family Cebidae, one of the four families of New World monkeys. The subfamily includes several genera, including the marmosets and tamarins. Until recently this group of), while moving other genera into the other families. As it is most widely recognised today, Cebidae includes six genera organised into three subfamilies, though one of these genera is currently purely formal in that it contains only a single species.

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