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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Mammals > Eutheria > Primates > Haplorhini > Catarrhini > Cercopithecidae > Cercopithecinae > Papio

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Papio  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Baboon
  • Baboons
  • Baboon, Savanna
  • Baboons, Savanna
  • Savanna Baboon
  • Savanna Baboons

Note

  • NIM with no qualifiers when experimental animal; diseases: coord IM with MONKEY DISEASES (IM)

Scope note

  • A genus of the subfamily CERCOPITHECINAE, family CERCOPITHECIDAE, consisting of five named species: PAPIO URSINUS (chacma baboon), PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS (yellow baboon), PAPIO PAPIO (western baboon), PAPIO ANUBIS (or olive baboon), and PAPIO HAMADRYAS (hamadryas baboon). Members of the Papio genus inhabit open woodland, savannahs, grassland, and rocky hill country. Some authors consider MANDRILLUS a subgenus of Papio.

History note

  • 81(75); was see under BABOONS 1973-80; BABOONS was heading 1971-80 (Prov 1971-72)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010215

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