Pug
Appearance
Monkeys | |
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Wild Macaca sinica in Yala Naitional Park, Sri Lanka | |
Scienteefic clessification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes [a] |
Groups included | |
Cladeestically includit but tradeetionally excludit taxa | |
A pug (puggie) is onie member o twa o the three groupins o simian primates. Thir twa groupins is the New Warld an Auld Warld pugs o whilk thegither thare is naur-haund 200 species. Acause o thair sibness tae pugs, apes sic as chimpanzees an gibbons is aft incorrectly cawed monkeys. Thare's nae parteecular chairacterisation whilk aw pugs haes.
Notes
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ When Carl Linnaeus defined the genus Simia in the 10t edeetion o Systema Naturae, it includit aw non-human monkeys an apes (simians).[2] Awtho "monkey" wis niver a taxonomic name, an is insteid a vernacular name for a paraphyletic group, its members faw unner the infraorder Simiiformes.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Fleagle, J.; Gilbert, C. Rowe, N.; Myers, M. (eds.). "Primate Evolution: John Fleagle and Chris Gilbert". All the World's Primates. Primate Conservation, Inc. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- ↑ Groves 2008, pp. 92–93.
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