Australopithecus
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
New Latin, from Latin austrālis (“southern”) + Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape”), named by Australian anatomist Raymond Dart in 1925 in reference to the type specimen having been found in South Africa.
Proper noun edit
Australopithecus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae – a group of extinct hominids related to humans, australopiths.
Usage notes edit
Members of the genus Paranthropus are sometimes grouped together with this genus.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Primates - order; Haplorrhini - suborder; Simiiformes - infraorder; Catarrhini - parvorder; Hominoidea - superfamily; Hominidae - family; Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Hominina - subtribe
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Australopithecus africanus - type species, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus bahrelghazali, Australopithecus anamensis, Australopithecus garhi, Australopithecus sediba - other species