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Papio (baboon)
Discussion
Papio Mller 1773 was suppressed by the ICZN in 1982 (opinion 1199) in favor of Papio Erxleben 1977, and the type species was set as Cynocephalus papio Desmarest 1820.
Taxonomy
Papio was named by Erxleben (1777). It is extant.
It was reranked as Simia (Papio) by Kerr (1792).
It was assigned to Simia by Kerr (1792); to Cynocephalina by Gray (1825); to Cercopithecidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cercopithecinae by Wilson and Reeder (2005); and to Papionina by Jablonski (2002), Xing et al. (2005) and Jablonski and Frost (2010).
It was reranked as Simia (Papio) by Kerr (1792).
It was assigned to Simia by Kerr (1792); to Cynocephalina by Gray (1825); to Cercopithecidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cercopithecinae by Wilson and Reeder (2005); and to Papionina by Jablonski (2002), Xing et al. (2005) and Jablonski and Frost (2010).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1777 | Papio Erxleben |
| 1792 | Simia (Papio) Kerr |
| 1795 | Cynocephalus Cuvier and Geoffroy |
| 1825 | Papio Gray p. 338 |
| 1997 | Papio McKenna and Bell |
| 2002 | Papio Jablonski |
| 2005 | Papio Wilson and Reeder |
| 2005 | Papio Xing et al. |
| 2010 | Papio Jablonski and Frost |
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G. Papio Erxleben 1777 [baboon]
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Subg. Papio (Inuus) Matschie 1901
Papio anubis Cuvier 1824 [olive baboon]
Papio anubis doguera Pucheran 1856
Papio hamadryas Linnaeus 1758 [Hamadryas baboon]
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Invalid names: Cercopithecus hamadryas Kerr 1792 [synonym], Simia cynamolgos Linnaeus 1758 [synonym]
†Papio izodi Gear 1926
Papio kindae Lönnberg 1919
Papio papio Desmarest 1820 [Guinea baboon]
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Invalid names: Cynocephalus olivaceus Geoffroy 1848 [synonym]
Papio porcarius Boddaert 1787
†Papio quadratirostris Iwamoto 1982
†Papio robinsoni Freedman 1957
Papio thoth Ogilby 1843
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792
Invalid names: Cynocephalus Cuvier and Geoffroy 1795 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available