Aotidae Elliot 1913

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 111-184 : 139

Aotidae Elliot 1913

Aotidae Elliot 1913 , Review of the Primates, Vol. 1: xxiv.

Genera: 1 genus with 8 species:

Genus Aotus Illiger 1811 (8 species with 7 subspecies)

Discussion: Groves (1989) first suggested that this is a full family and used the name Aotidae Poche, 1908 ; Groves (2001 c) pointed out that Nyctipithecidae Gray, 1870 has precedence, but overlooked the fact that Simpson (1945) had already replaced Nyctipithecinae by Aotinae ( Brandon-Jones and Groves, 2002). Goodman et al. (1998) placed it as a third subfamily of Cebidae (with Cebinae and Callitrichinae ), and McKenna and Bell (1997) placed Aotus , Cebus and Saimiri as three equal genera in their tribe Cebini (of subfamily Cebinae which also included Callicebini ).