Haplorhini
Translingual edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἁπλός (haplós, “simple”) + ῥινός (rhinós, “nose”), referring to the lack of a rhinarium (a wet nose, which is found in many mammals, including strepsirrhine primates).[1]
Proper noun edit
Haplorhini
Usage notes edit
The spelling with a single r, which was the one originally used (in Pocock 1918), has been modified by some taxonomists to have a double rr following rules of derivation in Ancient Greek (specifically, in a compound word the initial r- is automatically doubled after a vowel). Both spellings are in use in the scientific literature.
Hypernyms edit
- (suborder): 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
Hyponyms edit
- (suborder): Tarsiiformes, Simiiformes (infraorders)
References edit
- Haplorhini on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Haplorhini on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- ^ Ankel-Simons, F. (2007) Primate Anatomy, →ISBN, pages 394–395:
- Those primates with a philtrum and wet rhinarium have therefore been classified together as Strepsirrhini (Geoffroy, 1812) because of the structural similarity of these two characters in the nasal area. (Strepho means 'turned inward' in Greek and rhinos is Greek for 'nose.') In those primates whose snout is reduced in length and whose incisors are positioned close to each other, the rhinarium disappears. This is the case for tarsiers and anthropoids among primates, and therefore they were labeled together as Haplorhini (haplo means 'simple, single' in Greek).