THE PRIMATE ORDER Suborder Infraorder Superfamily Family Subfamily Common Names Distribution Lemuridae ring-tailed, and ruffed lemurs (true lemurs) Madagascar and Lepilemuridae sportive lemurs Comoro Islands (for some species) Lemuroidea Cheirogaleidae dwarf and mouse lemurs (dwarf lemurs) Lemuriformes indris, avahis, and sifakas 2 Indriidae Prosimii Madagascar (prosimians) Daubentoniidae aye-ayes lorises--India and lorises, pottos, and Loridae Southeast Asia; angwantibos Lorisoidea others--Africa sub-Saharan Africa Galagonidae galagos (or bush babies) and Zanzibar Philippines, Borneo, 3 Tarsiformes Tarsiidae tarsiers Celebes Islands, and Sumatra Panama and north Callitricidae Calitricinae marmosets and tamarins and eastern South America Platyrrhini Cebinae squirrel and capuchin monkeys forested areas of Ceboidea Central America night and titi monkeys (New World monkeys) 4 Aotinae and/or north and Cebidae eastern South Atelinae howler and spider monkeys America Pithecinae uakaris and sakis guenons and baboons--Africa; guenons, vervets, baboons, macaques--northwest Cercopithecinae macaques, etc. Africa, Gibraltar, Anthropoidea Cercopithecoidea South and East Asia Cercopithecidae (anthropoids) (Old World monkeys) colobuses--Central Africa; langurs--India colobuses, langurs, and and Southeast Asia; Colobinae proboscis monkeys Catarrhini proboscis monkeys-- Borneo (Old World monkeys, gibbons and siamangs Southeast Asia apes and humans) Hylobatidae Sumatra and Ponginae orangutans Borneo Hominoidea Central and West 5 Gorillinae gorillas (apes and humans) Hominidae Africa (hominids) chimpanzees and bonobos Central and West Africa Homininae originally only humans tropical and .