simian catarrhine http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D051079 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9526 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catarrhini https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catarrhini https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206930 Catarrhini Old World anthropoid The sister group to the New World monkeys, the Platyrrhini. The Platyrrhini emerged within "monkeys" by migration to South America from Afro-Arabia (the Old World), likely by ocean. With respect to the ones that stayed behind, Geoffroy in 1812 grouped the apes (hominoidea) and the Cercopithecoidea together and established the name Catarrhini, "Old World monkeys", or "singes de l'Ancien continent". catarrhine monkey catarrhines