| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians |
| subdivisio | Deuterostomia - deuterostomes |
| phylum | Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates |
| subphylum | Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates |
| infraphylum | Gnathostomata Zittel, 1879 - jawed vertebrates |
| superclassis | Tetrapoda Gaffney, 1979 - four-limbed vertebrates |
| class | Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals |
| subclass | Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897 |
| infraclass | Eutheria Thomas Henry Huxley, 1880 |
| superorder | Euarchontoglires Murphy et al., 2001 |
| order | Primates Linnaeus, 1758 - primates |
| suborder | Haplorrhini Pocock, 1918 - tarsiers, monkeys and apes |
| infraorder | Simiiformes |
| falanga | Catarrhini É. Geoffroy, 1812 - old world monkeys |
| superfamily | Cercopithecoidea Gray, 1821 |
| family | Cercopithecidae - old world monkeys |
| subfamily | Colobinae - colobid and leaf monkeys |
| genus | Colobus Illiger, 1811 |