Primates

See also: primates and primâtes

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin stem of primas (“one of the first, chief, excellent, noble”)

Proper noun

Primates

A taxonomic order within the superorder Euarchontoglires – the primates, including apes and monkeys.

Hypernyms

(order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass

Hyponyms

(order): Strepsirrhini (with wet noses), Haplorrhini (with dry noses) - suborders
- Aotidae, Atelidae, Cebidae, Cercopithecidae, Cheirogaleidae, Daubentoniidae, Galagidae, Hominidae, Hylobatidae, Indridae, Lemuridae, Lepilemuridae, Lorisidae, Pitheciidae, Tarsiidae - families

Translations

taxonomic order, within superorder Euarchontoglires - the primates

German: Primaten (de) m

Japanese: 霊長類 (ja) (れいちょうるい, reichōrui)

References

Primates on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Primates on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Primates on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Primates at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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