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Pug

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Monkeys
Temporal range: Late Eocene–Present[1]
Wild Macaca sinica in Yala Naitional Park, Sri Lanka
Wild Macaca sinica in Yala Naitional Park, Sri Lanka
Scienteefic clessificationEdit this classification
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
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Groups included
Platyrrhini
Cercopithecidae
Parapithecidae
Cladeestically includit but tradeetionally excludit taxa
Hominoidea

A pug (puggie) is onie member o twa o the three groupins o simian primates. Thir twa groupins is the New Warld an Auld Warld pugs o whilk thegither thare is naur-haund 200 species. Acause o thair sibness tae pugs, apes sic as chimpanzees an gibbons is aft incorrectly cawed monkeys. Thare's nae parteecular chairacterisation whilk aw pugs haes.

  1. When Carl Linnaeus defined the genus Simia in the 10t edeetion o Systema Naturae, it includit aw non-human monkeys an apes (simians).[2] Awtho "monkey" wis niver a taxonomic name, an is insteid a vernacular name for a paraphyletic group, its members faw unner the infraorder Simiiformes.

References

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  1. Fleagle, J.; Gilbert, C. Rowe, N.; Myers, M. (eds.). "Primate Evolution: John Fleagle and Chris Gilbert". All the World's Primates. Primate Conservation, Inc. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  2. Groves 2008, pp. 92–93.