how many species of monkeys are there?

Question: how many species of monkeys are there?
- Keywords:
  biology,
  monkey,
  specie
Asked by to Lewis on 18 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
- Lewis Dean answered on 18 Mar 2014:
  
  There are about 280 different species of monkeys. There are also about 22 different species of apes (I say ‘about’ because scientists often disagree about species).

Question: how many species of monkeys are there?