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Papio cynocephalus

Description

Papio cynocephalus (Linnaeus 1766)

[Simia] cynocephalus Linnaeus 1766, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., Vol. 1: 38.

Type Locality: Kenya, inland from Mombasa.

Vernacular Names: Yellow Baboon.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Papio cynocephalus subsp. cynocephalus Linnaeus 1766

Subspecies Papio cynocephalus subsp. ibeanus Thomas 1893

Subspecies Papio cynocephalus subsp. kindae Lönnberg 1919

Distribution: Somalia, coastal Kenya, Tanzania, to Zambezi River.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

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 166, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cercopithecidae
Genus
Papio
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Primates
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
cynocephalus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Papio cynocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) 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.
  • Thomas, O. 1893. On some new Bornean mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 11: 341 - 347.