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South America's 20 genera of nonhuman primates compares with 6 in Central America, 15 in Madagascar, 23 in Africa and 19 in Asia. All South American monkeys are believed to be descended from ancestors that rafted over from Africa about 25 million years ago in a single dispersal event. Suborder: Haplorrhini. Infraorder: Simiiformes
The primates of Colombia include 41 extant species in 13 genera and five families. [1] [2] [3] [4] Additionally, 12 fossil species in 10 genera and five families have ...
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Southern muriquis are now found only in specific areas of the Atlantic rainforest located in Brazil, South America, more specifically they are found in the Brazilian states of Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais. This New World monkey is known locally as mono carvoeiro, which translates to "charcoal monkey". [5 ...
One Central American monkey, the black-headed spider monkey, is considered to be critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). [8] Geoffroy's spider monkey and the Yucatán black howler are both considered to be endangered. [4] [17] The Central American squirrel monkey had been considered endangered, but ...
Ancestral sigmodontine rodents [3] apparently island-hopped from Central America to South America 5 or more million years ago, [4] [5] [6] prior to the formation of the Panamanian land bridge. They went on to diversify explosively, and now comprise 60% of South America's rodent species, while only making up 27% of Central America's. [n 2]
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Brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus) Platyrrhini is a parvorder of primates. Members of this parvorder are called platyrrhines, or New World monkeys, and include marmosets, tamarins, and capuchin, squirrel, night, titi, saki, howler, spider, and woolly monkeys. Platyrrhini is one of three clades that form the suborder Haplorrhini, itself one of two suborders in the order Primates. They are ...