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n. - Family of all the new world monkeys except tamarinds and marmosets.

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  • It bears the codename "Cebidae" referring to an in-joke often made during Akademy 2008.
  • These homely little devils are from the family Cebidae, classified as the genus Saguinus.
  • Squirrel monkeys inhabit parts of Central and South America, and are the smallest monkeys in the Cebidae family.
  • A new species of capuchin monkey, genus Cebus Erxleben (Cebidae, Primates): found at the very brink of extinction in the Pernambuco Endemism Centre.
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