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[edit] monkey

Someone please revert User:Influency on monkey. - UtherSRG (talk) 20:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red colobus - procolobus

On all of the Red colobus species pages it lists it as having the genus piliocolobus, however most other places, including IUCN (eg here) list it as being procolobus. A search on google brings 33000 for procolobus and only 9000 for piliocolobus. Where has this come from? Chris_huhtalk 00:15, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Moved by Groves 2001 - Primate Taxonomy. - UtherSRG (talk) 00:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Langurs

Can someone help with information on the splitting of the genus Common langurs (Semnopithecus spp.) into

  • Nepal Gray Langur (Semnopithecus schistaceus)
  • Kashmir Gray Langur (Semnopithecus ajax)
  • Tarai Gray Langur (Semnopithecus hector)
  • Northern Plains Gray Langur (Semnopithecus entellus) (Dufresne, 1797)
  • Black-footed Gray Langur (Semnopithecus hypoleucos)
  • Southern Plains Gray Langur (Semnopithecus dussumieri)
  • Tufted Gray Langur (Semnopithecus priam)

and the distribution ranges of these newly designated species. thanks. Shyamal 04:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User Box?

Is there a Userbox specific to this project? I see some for the Tree of Life but not for the Primate Project. Anyone have one?LiPollis 11:14, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:TOL template

I'm working on a proposal to subsume all the WP:TOL project banners into a single one. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Template union proposal and its talk page. Circeus 19:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Image

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I got promoted!

You may be interested to hear that the image to the right was promoted to featured image status. Chris Buttigiegtalk 21:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong pictures

All the pictures in Black Crested Gibbon except for the Stamp are wrong and should be put in White-cheeked Crested Gibbon, which is considered a different species nowadays. (In fact, 2 species, N. leucogenys and N. siki.) Regards --80.108.59.151 13:42, 26 July 2007 (UTC) (de:Benutzer:Bradypus)

Done! (You could have done this yourself, Bradypus... I know you know how. *grins* ) - UtherSRG (talk) 15:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalisation debate at main WP:MOS

There is currently a debate underway at the main wikipedia manual of style regarding whether common names of animals should carry an initial capital letter (horse or Horse) when used in the body of the text. It is looking strongly like the rules are going to be changed in favour of no-caps (except for birds), and since this may impact you guys, please visit Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Common names of animals. Sabine's Sunbird talk 22:27, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Animals project proposal

I think it's both a pity and somewhat illogical that we have no animal WikiProject despite the fact that there are over 20 projects that are basically its daughters. There are also other projects that could emerge from it in the future, such as one on animal behavior. The project would provide a central place for people from all animal projects to talk, a central set of guidelines for articles on animals and zoology, and an assessment system for articles related to animals. If you are interested in creating such a project please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of life#Animals project to discuss. Richard001 08:59, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

The following projects would come under the parentage of this project:

[edit] Golden langur image

I have a shot of the golden langur that is under CC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Langur ... If someone is interested in using it. it'll be cool. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pankaj/320367981/ 203.83.248.32 spo0nman 203.83.248.32


—Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.83.248.32 (talk) 11:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merger to WikiProject Mammals

I was thinking that this project might be willing to try to utilize the banner of the Mammals project for assessment. To do this, some sort of "merger" of the projects would be required. For the purposes of centralized discussion, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mammals#Proposed merger with WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials. Thank you. John Carter 17:03, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fossil Primates

Dear Proteuontologists (this funny word would be the purist Greek word for our discipline if we wanted to avoid the Latin-Greek hybrid "primatologists"), I suggest we try to create an article with the tittle "Fossil Primates", where the classification of the direct ancestors of all current Primate families appear. It is impossible to be up to date with new findings, published in too many revues. We could use this discussion page to keep each other informed about the advances of Primatology/Proteuontology. We have been able to do so with living species. It might be time to do the same with extinct ones. Thank you for your help in advance. Vasconicus (talk) 10:31, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed change to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)

There is a current proposal to change an animal-related naming convention, which directly effects the the Manual of Style guideline, and the naming conventions policy. If you are interested, your input would be appreciated. Justin chat 06:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ardipithecus Page Needs References

Call for help. No references on a very important page. Can someone please see to this? --1000Faces (talk) 18:41, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I stumbled on this page and made a major restructure, supplying a few basic references as unformatted URLs. Better now, but still needs much work. Adopted the convention of designating Ardipithecus as Ar. rather than A. because as a lay person, I found A. darn confusing with respect to those Australothingies. All the articles I was able to locate now use the Ar. convention (many of them did already). - MaxEnt (talk) 16:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Hrm... I may revert the A. -> Ar. changes you made. that convention is used when A. itself would be ambiguous. On a page that only has Ardipithecus info, I would think the context would be enough. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:49, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
I would agree, Uther. --Aranae (talk) 18:57, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lophocebus ugandae

This specie, announced by C.P. Groves, has never been described officially! It's not an accepted taxon and its validity is discussed see: http://primatology.net/2007/02/20/a-new-species-of-gray-cheeked-mangabey-anounced/ --Esculapio (talk) 16:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

To clarify, the taxon has been formally described. Whether it is a junior synonym or a distinct species is the topic of discussion. --Aranae (talk) 17:03, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Could you kindly indicate references of formal description? --Esculapio (talk) 17:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
That's a blog. I'm not impressed. The taxon is valid, as it was described in 1912 by Matchie. Groves doesn't need to re-describe it. He only needs to elevate its status, which he has done. I've updated the article to point to the published paper in Primate Conservation. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:23, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Not a member of the Primate Wikiproject, but I noticed this article today. The images on the Grey-cheeked Mangabey article page were taken in Kibale National Park, Uganda, which would mean they are of the new species, if that taxa is accepted. I'll leave it up to you guys to decide where those images should go. Sabine's Sunbird talk 19:21, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessments

Is this project going to get an assessment system working, or do we have to use the mammals template for that? Richard001 (talk) 10:44, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm trying to sort out easy-to-use pages for a few aspects of this WikiProject, at the moment I'm stealing a lot of stuff from the bird people who seemed to have things nice and organised. I'll carry on working on it tomorrow, I'm far from finished, because my internet is being slow tonight. Has anyone got any other ideas how to get things moving round here? I'm kinda feeling we need some focus on getting articles to featured status as there is a lot of stubs at the moment. I would recommend getting Chimpanzee featured as the bulk is already there. Jack (talk) 02:01, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Okay I think I've sorted most things out to work normally, now we just need people to start reviewing our current articles within the Primate WikiProject. You can see pages that need to be created on the Article requests page. Any feedback? Cheers, Jack (talk) 16:19, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Still missing about 66 species articles

  1. White-mantled Tamarin, Saguinus melanoleucus
  2. Red-capped Tamarin, Saguinus pileatus
  3. Bale Mountains Vervet, Chlorocebus djamdjamensis
  4. Tantalus Monkey, Chlorocebus tantalus
    # Roloway Monkey, Cercopithecus roloway
    # Silver Monkey, Cercopithecus doggetti
  5. Golden Monkey, Cercopithecus kandti
  6. Sykes's Monkey, Cercopithecus albogularis
  7. Lowe's Mona Monkey, Cercopithecus lowei
  8. Dent's Mona Monkey, Cercopithecus denti
  9. Siberut Macaque, Macaca siberu
  10. Opdenbosch's Mangabey, Lophocebus opdenboschi
  11. Agile Mangabey, Cercocebus agilis
  12. Sanje Mangabey, Cercocebus sanjei
  13. Bay Red Colobus, Piliocolobus badius badius
  14. Temminck's Red Colobus, Piliocolobus badius temminckii
  15. Preuss's Red Colobus, Piliocolobus preussi
  16. Thollon's Red Colobus, Piliocolobus tholloni
  17. Central African Red Colobus, Piliocolobus foai
  18. Ugandan Red Colobus, Piliocolobus tephrosceles
  19. Nepal Gray Langur, Semnopithecus schistaceus
  20. Kashmir Gray Langur, Semnopithecus ajax
  21. Tarai Gray Langur, Semnopithecus hector
  22. Southern Plains Gray Langur, Semnopithecus dussumieri
  23. Tufted Gray Langur, Semnopithecus priam
  24. Indochinese Lutung, Trachypithecus germaini
  25. Shortridge's Langur, Trachypithecus shortridgei
  26. Indochinese Black Langur, Trachypithecus ebenus
  27. Sarawak Surili, Presbytis chrysomelas
  28. Natuna Island Surili, Presbytis natunae
  29. Sibree's Dwarf Lemur, Cheirogaleus sibreei
  30. Microcebus bongolavensis
  31. Microcebus danfossi
  32. Microcebus lokobensis
  33. Sanford's Brown Lemur, Eulemur sanfordi
  34. Red-fronted Brown Lemur, Eulemur rufus
  35. Collared Brown Lemur, Eulemur collaris
  36. White-collared Brown Lemur, Eulemur albocollaris
  37. Western Lesser Bamboo Lemur, Hapalemur occidentalis
  38. Southern Lesser Bamboo Lemur, Hapalemur meridionalis
  39. Aeecl's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur aeeclis
  40. Ahmanson's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur ahmansoni
  41. Ankarana Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur ankaranensis
  42. Betsileo Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur betsileo
  43. Fleurete's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur fleuretae
  44. Grewcock's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur grewcocki
  45. Hubbard's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur hubbardi
  46. James' Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur jamesi
  47. Manasamody Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur manasamody
  48. Ring Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur milanoii
  49. Otto's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur otto
  50. Petter's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur petteri
  51. Randrianasoli's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur randrianasoli
  52. Sahamalaza's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur sahamalazensis
  53. Scott's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur scottorum
  54. Seal's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur seali
  55. Hawk's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur tymerlachsoni
  56. Wright's Sportive Lemur, Lepilemur wrighti
  57. Moore's Woolly Lemur, Avahi mooreorum
  58. Sambirano Woolly Lemur, Avahi unicolor
  59. Silky Sifaka, Propithecus candidus
  60. Perrier's Sifaka, Propithecus perrieri
  61. Decken's Sifaka, Propithecus deckenii
  62. Crowned Sifaka, Propithecus coronatus
  63. Silvery Greater Galago, Otolemur monteiri
  64. Cross River Bushbaby, Galago cameronensis
  65. Gabon Bushbaby, Galago gabonensis
  66. Malawi Bushbaby, Galago nyasae

Kaldari (talk) 20:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

If we can get all of these to stub level like Silver Monkey that'd be great. For reference a more comprehensive list of primate articles requested is at the article requests page. Jack (talk) 18:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)