Talk:Guenon
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[edit] Authority for Cercopithecus?
Who named the genus Cercopithecus? This article and ITIS both say "Linnaeus, 1758" [1]. However, I find that a bit implausible since
- in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae Linnaeus put all the monkeys in Simia;
- if he named the genus you would have expected him to place a species in it, but none of the species currently in Cercopithecus was placed there by Linnaeus
- the type species was originally Simia diana
So there's a puzzle here. Gdr 13:29:37, 2005-08-05 (UTC)
- Linnaeus named it as a group within Simia in SN 10. See Wikispecies which comes from Groves. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:57, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
