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The "apes" are traditionally divided further into the "lesser apes" and the "great apes":

Classification
The following list shows where the various monkey families (bolded) are placed in the classification of living (extant) primates.


 * ORDER PRIMATES
 * Suborder Strepsirrhini: non-tarsier prosimians
 * Suborder Haplorhini: tarsiers, monkeys, and apes
 * Infraorder Tarsiiformes
 * Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers
 * Infraorder Simiiformes: simians
 * Parvorder Platyrrhini: New World monkeys
 * Family Callitrichidae: marmosets and tamarins (42 species)
 * Family Cebidae: capuchins and squirrel monkeys (14 species)
 * Family Aotidae: night monkeys (11 species)
 * Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis, and uakaris (41 species)
 * Family Atelidae: howler, spider, and woolly monkeys (24 species)
 * Parvorder Catarrhini
 * Superfamily Cercopithecoidea
 * Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys (135 species)
 * Superfamily Hominoidea: apes
 * Family Hylobatidae: gibbons ("lesser apes") (15 species)
 * Family Hominidae: great apes including humans (7 species)