Wikipedia:WikiProject Primates

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4444hhhh LadyofShalott Aflunters New to Wikipedia, studying as a part of a digital media class. Interested in primates annamargit new to wikipedia, Anthropology student, eager to help Annielogue AshLin Mostly interested in primate behaviour Bearian Belugaboy C6541 Clumsystiggy Focusing on fossil species, mostly fossils & hum. evolution DocZaius19 Doctor S Monkey Eamon1183 E.middlebrook Gabriel.Hassler Interested in cooperation in monkeys and apes, particularly Erythrocebus. Genesyz Gihan Working as a research assistant of Primate project in Sri Lankan langurs, and leaf monkeys Hadal Isfisk Jack Hynes Katims90 Interested in social behaviors from altruism to spite Kenyapithecus Miocene hominoids. Killidude þ Lisapollison Maky (a.k.a. VisionHolder) Primarily interested in lemurs, both living and extinct. I plan to eventually make all Lemur articles GA or better. Marklxb Student at Washington University in St. Louis interested in primate cooperation. Mishac Monkeywire Primate behavior and humanity's relationship with other primates Nowimnthing Nsavalia23 Primarily interested in the social behavior in primates. Ombudsman Paleolithicus Patr2016 Mainly interested in Great Apes, specifically Orangutans. Peter Maas Ratattuta Rlendog Scotth1001 New to Wikipedia. interested in helping with pretty much anything. Also able to translate between English, French, and simple Japanese. thelsmotto Twas Now Primarily interested in the Great Apes, including extinct groups, and the anthropological aspects of primatology; but I'm willing to help with almost anything! Tylbrooks1998 Interested mainly in taxonomy, seems most of the primate articles are pretty good which I'm proud of everyone for :) UtherSRG founding member Y12J Interested in progressive classification of human relatives 00:23, 15 March 2012 (UTC) ZooFari Maintain our portal SMcCandlish (talk · contribs) anthropologist by training, but I mostly do WP:GNOME work on these articles OJefi Interested in primates in general, able to translate between English and Portuguese Inactive: (If you notice one of these users has become active since the date listed, please move them back to the active users.) Joe Klein Since July 2011 DarthVader Since July 2011 MichaelRitchie200 Since April 2011 Huicocos Since January 2011 Ummagumma23 Since December 2010 Primate#101 Since December 2010 somedude101 Since September 2010 JPotter Since August 2010 Exlibris Since March 2010 seglea Since February 2010 Dustin Asby Since January 2010 Anlace Since May 2009 8thstar Since May 2009 KalevTait Since March 2009 Terry Longbaugh Since November 2008 Chocolatl Since October 2008 yojimbo501 Since August 2008 Tannin Since July 2008 Sambostock Since March 2008 Kfc1864 Since November 2007 Cryoboy Since July 2006 Pajamacore Since May 2006 }

Primate taxonomy is by no means fully known or agreed upon. The following references are currently being used for this Project. See the discussion for other possibilities.

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System - an automated reference database of scientific and common names for species. More information is available here.
• Mammal Diversity Database - an automated database of mammal taxonomy.
• IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group - an updated list of scientific and common names from the IUCN Primate Specialist Group; as of 2019 chaired by the editors of Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 3: Primates
• Mittermeier, R.A., et al Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 3: Primates, 1st Edition (Lynx Edicions, 2013), ISBN 9788496553897 - updated source for primate classification and information
• Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition (2005) - this is now one of the primary source for primate classification - use {{MSW3 }} or one of its derivatives (such as {{MSW3 Primates }} or {{MSW3 Groves }}) in the reference section.
• Mittermeier, R.A.; Louis, E.E.; Richardson, M.; Schwitzer, C.; et al. (2010). Lemurs of Madagascar . Illustrated by S.D. Nash (3rd ed.). Conservation International. ISBN 978-1-934151-23-5. OCLC 670545286. – The latest field guide to the Malagasy lemurs; includes 101 lemur taxa. Use {{LoM3 }} for references.
• Primate Taxonomy (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001), Colin Groves (ISBN 156098872X) - formerly the primary source
• Mikko's Phylogeny Archive, Primate node - particularly good for relationships among the extant and extinct primates, although some nomenclature differs from MSW3
• Noel Rowe & Marc Myers, All the World's Primates (Pogonias Press, 2016), ISBN 9781940496061, another recent source for primate classification and information

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