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Cercopithecidae Family - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/primates/cercopithecidae

The family Cercopithecidae includes 18 genera and 81 species. These monkeys are widely distributed in the Old World from southern Europe (Gibraltar) into NW Africa; throughout Africa south of the Sahara; and through central and SE Asia, including southern China and most of Japan.

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Cercopithecidae - English
URL: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/mammalia/primates/cercopithecidae/

Scientific names. Finnish names. English names.

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The Old World Monkeys - English
URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~phyl/anthro/cata.html

Old world monkeys are found throughout tropical Africa and Asia. The only exceptions are the macaques- some species live in Japan and others in northern Africa.

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Zoology -- Old World Monkeys - English
URL: http://members.aol.com/porchnus/zoo/mamm/primates/oldmonk.htm

Classification.

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Old World Monkeys - English
URL: http://vertigo.derby.ac.uk/BiologicalImaging/studentwork/Primates/oldworld.html

Despite their wide geogreaphic distributions, the Catarrhini are a relatively similar group of and are classified as the the superefamily; CERCOPITHECOIDEA . This superfmamily is divided into two sub-families: the Cercopithecidae, the Colobinae.

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Old World monkey - English
URL: http://anthropology.about.com/science/anthropology/library/glossary/bldefowm.htm

A definition of Old World monkey.

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Old World Monkeys - English
URL: http://www.uakron.edu/biology/peter/principles/lec9/tsld006.htm

Baboons, macaques, rhesus, mandrills: tails not prehensile, nostrils close, directed forward and down ischial callosities often prominent.

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NatureExplorer.com Volume 3 Mammals of Africa - English
URL: http://www.natureexplorer.com/MA/MA8.html

Animals in Danger is a web site containing information about the world's endangered animals and threatened animals. it is a companion to the REMedia Animals in Danger CD-ROM disk. This wenb site is suitable for adults and children.

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Infraorder Catarrhini (Old World Monkeys, Gibbons, Apes, Man) - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/robbinknapp/romdap/rbadcata.htm

A systematic list of the families of the infraorder Catarrhini (Old World monkeys, gibbons, apes, man). Families of the Infraorder Catarrhini (Old World Monkeys, Gibbons, Apes, Man) According to Hershkovitz (1977); some authors consider Catarrhini to be a suborder or division.

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Family Cercopithecidae - English
URL: http://1kai.dokkyomed.ac.jp/mammal/en/family/cercopithecidae.html

List of genera.

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Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys) - English
URL: http://www.thebigzoo.com/zoo/Cercopithecidae.asp

This family contains 82 species of baboons, macaques, guenons, and colobus monkeys. This family is referred to as "Old World" monkeys because they are found in Africa and southern Asia.

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Old World Monkeys - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/primates.cercopithecidae.html

This family of 19 genera and as many as 94 species is found in Africa (and, possibly through introduction, in Gibraltar in extreme southern Spain), the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, south-central and southeastern Asia, Japan, and the East Indies as far as Sulawesi and Timor.

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