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Taxonomy: classification/Systematics - Coggle Diagram
Taxonomy: classification/Systematics
Hierarchy
Infraclass:
Eutheria
= fully developed placenta
Carolus Linnaeus:1758, classification, has
Order Primates
Subclass:
Theria
= give birth to live babies
Class: Mammalia = warm blood
Subphylum: Vertebrate = spinal cord, brain, backbone
Phylum: Chordata = symmetric, nerve
Subkingdom: Metazoan (mutli-cellular)
Kingdom: Animalia
Binomial Nomenclature: Genus + Species
e.g. Homo sapiens
Chimpanzee = Pan troglodytes
Orangutan = Pongo
Gorrila = Gorrila gorrila (lowland)
& Gorrila berengei (mountain)
Suborder Anthropoidea
Infraorder
Platyrrhine
= nose far apart
Superfamily Ceboidea = NW monkey
squirrel monkey: carry baby on back
All monkeys start in Africa,
some drift to South America
Infraorder
Catarrhine
= nose close, no scent-marking
OW monkeys
rhesus macaque: wide distributed (India, China),
biomedical research (Polio)
Apes
Great Apes
Gorilla: gentle vegetarians, prefer not to fight
orangutans
chimpanzee, bonobo
Lesser Apes
Gibbons
Human
only primate upright all the time
Modern human (Homo sapiens): only
species
in
genus
, other extinct
Distribution
lived more north than now, now more tropical
Ancestral Prosimians (extinct): NA & Europe (North)
Today: South America (monkeys)
Africa & Asia
: monkeys, prosimians, apes
Madgascar: prosimians
Suborder Posimii: Prosimians
Foods
small: bugs
big: figs/fruits
Characteristics
Teeth 36 or 32 (2-1-3-3, 2-1-2-3):
incisors, canine, premolar, molar
Nails not claws
highly developed brain
orbits surrounded by bone, eyes in front of head in sockets
ball & socket joints (legs, arms)
pentadactyl = 5 fingers
Tarsier: half prosimian + half monkey
650+ species of primates
Nose
vomeranosal: prosimian -> tarsier -> NW monkey
Nostril width
platyrrhine = wide nose for NW monkey;
Catarrhine = narrow nose for OW monkey
Strepsirrhine = rhinarium for prosimian;
haplorrhine = dry nose for tarsier & anthropoidea