Alternative spellings: Catarhini, Catarrhina
Parent taxon: Anthropoidea according to J.G. Fleagle 2013
See also Alba et al. 2012, Alba and Moyà-Solà 2012, Alba et al. 2009, Beard et al. 1994, Begun 2002, Carroll 1988, Delson et al. 2005, Frost 2001, Gebo et al. 1997, Gilbert 2007, Gilbert 2013, Gilbert et al. 2020, Gregory 1910, Harrison 1989, Harrison et al. 1991, Hlusko 2007, Jablonski 2002, Jablonski and Frost 2010, Jaekel 1911, Kay et al. 2004, Kelley 2002, Koufos et al. 1991, Kunimatsu 1997, Maw et al. 1979, McKenna 1975, McNulty et al. 2015, Moyà‐Solà et al. 2001, Nengo et al. 2017, Pallas et al. 2019, Poux and Douzery 2004, Rosenberger 2006 and Rossie and MacLatchy 2006
Sister taxa: Afrotarsiidae, Amamria, Amphipithecidae, Arctopithecini, Aseanpithecus, Eosimiidae, Neopithecini, Oligopithecidae, Paleopithecini, Parapithecoidea, Perupithecus, Platyrrhini, Proteopithecidae, Notnamaia, Aotidae, Protoanthropoidea
Subtaxa: Cercopithecoidea Dendropithecoidea Eucatarrhini Hominoidea Kalepithecus Kamoyapithecus Kansupithecus Kogolepithecus Krishnapithecus Krishnapithecus krishnaii Nyanzapithecinae Pliobates Pliopithecoidea Propliopithecidae Propliopithecoidea Saadanioidea
Ecology: arboreal omnivore