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Mandrillus Ritgen 1824

Description

Mandrillus Ritgen 1824

Mandrillus Ritgen 1824, Natureichen Eintheilung der Saugethiere: 33.

Type Species: Simia maimon Linnaeus 1766

Synonyms: Chaeropithecus Gray 1870; Drill Reichenbach 1862; Maimon Trouessart 1904; Mandril Voigt 1831; Mormon Wagner 1839.

Species and subspecies: 2 species with 2 subspecies:

Species Mandrillus leucophaeus (F. Cuvier 1807)

Subspecies Mandrillus leucophaeus subsp. leucophaeus F. Cuvier 1807

Subspecies Mandrillus leucophaeus subsp. poensis Zukowsky 1922

Species Mandrillus sphinx (Linnaeus 1758)

Discussion: Not a synonym of Papio (see Groves, 1989), pace McKenna and Bell (1997). Delson and Napier (1976:46) considered these two species in genus Papio, subgenus Papio; placed in subgenus Mandrillus by Dandelot (1974:9). Mandrillus considered a full genus by Groves (1989, 2001 c); placed as a subgenus of Cercocebus by Goodman et al. (1998).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, pp. 111-184 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 165, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Family
Cercopithecidae
Genus
Mandrillus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Primates
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Ritgen
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Mandrillus Ritgen, 1824 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Linnaeus, C. 1766 - 1768. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis synonymis, locis. Vol. 1. Regnum Animale. pt. 1, pp. 1 - 532 [1766]; vol. 3, Appendix pp. 223 - 235 [1768]. 12 th ed. [Vol. 3, Regnum Lapideum, pp. 1 - 222, rejected for nomenclatural purposes, ICZN, opinion 296]. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 3 vols.
  • Gray, J. E. 1870. Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs and fruit eating bats in the collections of the British Museum. British Museum, London, 137 pp.
  • Wagner, J. A. 1839. Die Saugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Supplement 1. Weigel, Leipzig, 551 pp.
  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
  • McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.
  • Delson, E., and P. H. Napier. 1976. Request for determination of the generic names of the baboon and the mandrill (Mammalia: Primates, Cercopithecidae) Z. N. (S.) 2093. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 33 (1): 46 - 60.
  • Dandelot, P. 1974. Order Primates. Part 3. Pp. 1 - 45, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.