“…Some of the interesting features of these models are, among others, that anomaly cancellation and QCD asymptotic freedom demand that only three family of fermions should be present in the theory, explaining the family problem (Pisano and Pleitez, 1992); electric charge quantization is automatic in these models (Pires and Ravinez, 1998); the tiny neutrino mass can be naturally explained (Dias et al, 2005) in a version of the model where the right handed neutrino is in the same multiplet along with its partners that form the usual doublet under EWSM (Singer et al, 1980;Montero et al, 1993;Valle and Singer, 1983), or even considering effective operators in the minimal model where the third leptonic component is the right handed charged lepton (Pires et al, 2010b); the strong CP problem through Peccei-Quinn mechanism can be implemented, yielding a nonthermal candidate for the CDM problem, the axion (Dias et al, 2003); the Higgs physics probed by LHC can be easily accommodated and also allow for some room to new Physics phenomena (Caetano et al, 2013); the discrepancy between theory and experiment on (g-2) µ can be accounted for in some versions of the model (Pires and Ravinez, 1998;Ky et al, 2000). Besides, it is possible for some versions of 331 model to present a natural CDM candidate as a WIMP (Pires and Silva, 2007;Mizukoshi et al, 2011) and it is this specific topic in the context of 331 models that we want to discuss in this review.…”