Talk:Haplorhini

Can someone explain the differences between Tarsiiformes and Simiiformes? How are they seperated?

Explanation

• Simiiformes - Simians, the "higher primates" well known to most people: the monkeys and the apes, including humans.
• Tarsiiformes - Tarsiers (monotypic family Tarsiidae, genus Tarsius) are a genus of prosimian primates, previously classified as strepsirrhines, but now classified as haplorrhines, though still not considered to be simians.

Characteristics

The Suborder Haplorrhini has 8 families, 45 genera and 288 species.

Comment

Recognised as an infraorder by McKenna and Bell (1997; see comments under Strepsirrhini); Tarsiiformes and Anthropoidea were regarded as Parvorders.

Haplorhini

Please see Wikispecies:Village Pump#Haplorhini for more information.  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  22:39, 14 April 2017 (UTC)