Anthropoidea
a former taxonomic suborder that comprised New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes, including humans, collectively classified as anthropoids or anthropoid apes, which are now grouped under the suborder Haplorhini along with the tarsiers.
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In most of the other Anthropoidea there are two or three fused vertebrae, and in the Lemuroidea two to five.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsThe characters of the skull differ greatly in the two suborders of Primates, the Anthropoidea and the Lemuroidea.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsIn the lower Anthropoidea the ilium is long and narrow and has a small iliac surface.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsIn the Anthropoidea the skull differs greatly from that in the Lemuroidea.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsThe wrist (carpus) has nine bones, as in the lower Anthropoidea.
A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2) | Henry O. Forbes
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