Primate taxonomy
By: Colin Groves.
Series: Smithsonian series in comparative evolutionary biology
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Primates -- Classification; Primates -- classification
Genres: Classification.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-340).
Table of contents: title: What taxonomy is meant to do and how it should do it.; title: Taxonomic ranking and nomenclature.; title: The species-group.; title: A brief history of primate taxonomy.; title: Taxonomy of primates above the family level.; title: Malagasy lemurs.; title: Loriformes.; title: Tarsiformes.; title: Platyrrhini.; title: Old world monkeys: superfamily Cercopithecoidea Gray, 1821.; title: Hominoids: superfamily Hominoidea Gray, 1825.; title: Appendix A: a word about fossil primates.; title: Glossary.