Primates Linnaeus 1758

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 : 111

Primates Linnaeus 1758

Families: 15 families with 69 genera and 375 species in 2 suborders and 5 infraorders:

Suborder STREPSIRRHINI E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812

Infraorder LEMURIFORMES Gray 1821

Family Cheirogaleidae Gray 1872 (5 genera with 21 species)

Family Lemuridae Gray 1821 (5 genera with 19 species and 7 subspecies)

Family Lepilemuridae Gray 1870 (1 genus with 8 species)

Family Indridae Burnett 1828 (3 genera with 11 species and 6 subspecies)

Infraorder CHIROMYIFORMES Anthony and Coupin 1931

Family Daubentoniidae Gray 1863 (1 genus with 1 species)

Infraorder LORISIFORMES Gregory 1915

Family Lorisidae Gray 1821 (5 genera with 9 species and 10 subspecies)

Family Galagidae Gray 1825 (3 genera with 19 species and 14 subspecies)

Suborder HAPLORRHINI Pocock 1918

Infraorder TARSIIFORMES Gregory 1915

Family Tarsiidae Gray 1825 (1 genus with 7 species and 3 subspecies)

Infraorder SIMIIFORMES Haeckel 1866

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: Fully reviewed by Groves (2001 c), whose arrangement is followed here, with the addition of some subsequently described species. McKenna and Bell (1997) placed all living Primates in a suborder Euprimates , and reduced Strepsirrhini and Haplorrhini to infraorders; they regarded the Dermoptera as a second suborder of Primates . If Dermoptera are retained as a separate order, as in this volume, the need for Euprimates (in a classification of living taxa) disappears and Strepsirrhini and Haplorrhini revert to suborders.