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I'm confused: the article is called 'Haplorrhini' (two 'R's) and yet the text uses the words Haplorhini and haplorhines (one 'R') throughout.. the opening line even specifies a single R. Any experts know the correst usage? Kaid100 ( talk) 12:47, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Someone just went through the article and changed "haplorrhine" back to "haplorhine." Despite the mixed use in the literature, we need to stick to the latter per the reasons above. If someone has time to revert it back, please do. Otherwise, I will try to take care of it after work tonight. – VisionHolder « talk » 14:46, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I changed the entry from two "r"s to one "r" because the clade (correct spelling "Haplorhini" - one "r") was mis-spelled throughout the entry. ( I am tired of my undergrad students mis-spelling the name Haplorhini because Wikipedia has an error, so I decided to correct it myself.) This spelling is not only standard usage in the scientific literature, it is the rule according to the accepted principles of zoological nomenclature.
But of course, don't take my word for it just because I am an expert on this topic -- if you search Google Scholar for "haplorhini" (correct spelling), you get 17,900 hits. If you search "haplorrhini (incorrect spelling), you get 217. (In Web of Science, you only get 3 peer-reviewed journal articles for the incorrect spelling). This spelling is not an even remotely controversial issue among students of mammalian taxonomy. The current title of the section (which still has 2 "r"s) is not correct. PorfirioPhoonman ( talk) 18:43, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Jenkins, P.D. 1987. Catalogue of Primates in the British Museum (Natural History) and elsewhere in the British Isles. Part IV: Suborder Strepsirrhini, including the subfossil Madagascan lemurs and Family Tarsiidae. London: British Museum (Natural History). She stated on p.1, "The spelling of higher category names has been variable in this group. Authors almost invariably incorrectly deleted an 'r ' from Strepsirrhini (i.e. Strepsirhini), yet retained it in the other two names created by E.Geoffroy (1812a) -- Platyrrhini and Catarrhini." The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature does not cover taxonomic ranks above the family-group, so one cannot say that this is "official", but what Paula Jenkins did was to point out the different treatment of Geoffroy's three names, and that the elimination of an 'r ' from just one of them is inconsistent and (etymologically) incorrect. I have not done any counts, but it is my impression that people have on the whole accepted her argument, and turned to using the correct Strepsirrhini. Including me (for example, in the Wilson & Reeder Mammal Species of the World)! -Colin Groves
The major goal of any scheme of taxonomy is the ability for specialists to know what species are being referred to, and to meet this goal stability is key. Here's a quote from the INTERNATIONAL CODE OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE:
"biological nomenclature has to be an exact tool that will convey a precise meaning for persons in all generations"
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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/)
You're correct that the ICZN only officially covers taxa up to superfamily, but the principles for deferring to "general use" are clear nonetheless:
"Measures empowering authors to act in the interests of preserving established usage
11. An author will be required (without a ruling by the Commission) not to displace a name which has been used as valid by at least 10 authors in 25 publications during the past 50 years, and encompassing a span of not less than ten years, by an earlier synonym or homonym which has not been used as valid since 1899.
12. In most cases an author will be required to maintain the particular spelling in prevailing usage for a name, even if it is found not to be the original spelling; for example, the spellings of family-group names currently in use are to be maintained even if formed from grammatically incorrect stems.
14. If it is found that a name currently in general use for a family-group taxon is later than the name currently in use for one of its subordinate family-group taxa, the name used for the higher rank taxon is not to be displaced by the name of the subordinate taxon."
This issue also inspired me to pull out my copy of Pocock 1918, and contrary to the claim of "Jack" above (2009), the original spelling of Haplorhini was with a single "r". So in the case of Haplorhini, the correct spelling is clear-cut. One "r" has priority, AND it is in general use.
So while I agree with you that consistency is important, I submit that consistency in Wikipedia should never come at the expense of accuracy. In this case, the correct answer is clear - "haplorhine" is spelled with one "r". (My only question now if how to correct the spelling the title of this entry and eliminate the "redirect" from "Haplorhini" - perhaps you more experienced Wikipedians can help me out.) PorfirioPhoonman ( talk) 16:36, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Note that the correct names of the two clades that constitute Haplorhini are (1) Tarsiiformes and (2) Anthropoidea. As with the correct spelling of haplorhini, these are non-controversial issues among mammalian taxonomists. PorfirioPhoonman ( talk) 19:34, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
This is an easy issue to resolve. First, "simian" is an informal term used to refer to non-human anthropoids. The clade "Anthropoidea" was named by Mivart in 1864. "Simiiformes" was named 2 years later (1866) by Haeckel to describe the same group (i.e., monkeys, apes, humans). More importantly (see "general use" discussion above), "Anthropoidea" / "anthropoid" are used nearly universally by specialists. A search for "Anthropoidea" recovers 148 peer-reviewed journal articles on Web of Science; "Simiiformes" recovers only 6 papers, starting with Hoffstetter in 1974. Also, "anthropoid" nets 855 papers; "simiiform" nets 5. [For reasons that are not immediately clear, a small group of European authors started using "simiiform" in preference to "anthropoid"; this change has not been widely adopted.]
Therefore: "Anthropoidea" has priority over "Simiiformes", AND it is in far greater general use. It's not clear to me why Groves has endorsed "Simiiformes" in Mammal Species of the World online: http://www.vertebrates.si.edu/msw/mswcfapp/msw/taxon_browser.cfm?msw_id=1335 but then again Groves has never been afraid to buck the prevailing taxonomic trends. In this case, the effect has laid bare the difference between authoritative peer-reviewed sources used by experts (e.g., in the biological anthropology and mammalogy primary literature - nearly everyone uses "anthropoid") and non peer-reviewed online sources (e.g., Wikipedia and Animal Diversity Web, which have followed the online Mammal Species of the World page - probably because it is easier to access without library privileges at a research university).
In this case, I submit that, for all of the reasons discussed here as well as the thread above regarding the correct spelling of "haplorhine", Wikipedia and its users would be best served by using the correct taxonomy that is in near universal use among experts - the clade Haplorhini has two constituent clades: Anthropoidea and Tarsiiformes PorfirioPhoonman ( talk) 17:09, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
As a non-expert can I point out that the way the information on taxonomy is arranged it makes no sense, presenting simiiformes as a sub-section of PRIMATES. It needs cleaning up by an expert. Mens Sana ( talk) 08:29, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
"Haplorrhines are considered to be less primitive than the strepsirrhine" – is there a citation for this? "Less primitive" without context sounds decidedly un-evolutionary and hence unscientific.-- 77.188.16.131 ( talk) 11:48, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I agree - the old language was problematic because all clades are defined by shared derived features (including Strepsirrhini). I changed the entry to read "Haplorhines share a number of derived features that distinguish them from the strepsirrhine "wet-nosed" primates..."
PorfirioPhoonman ( talk) 19:23, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Darwinius is listed as 47 million years old and being characterized as a Strepsirrhine Adapiform. Haplorrhini is considered to have branched from Strepsirrhini around 63 million years ago. So how could Darwinius possibly be the oldest true Haplorrhini? 96.240.136.173 ( talk) 08:54, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
I deleted the reference to Darwinius here because the claim that it is an early haplorhine has been thoroughly debunked. It therefore was not relevant to the entry on Haplorhini (note that Darwinius has its own entry in Wikipedia). See:
Seiffert, Perry, Simons, Boyer. 2009. Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates. Nature 461,1118–1121.
Williams, Kay, Kirk, Ross. 2010. Darwinius masillae is a strepsirrhine – a reply to Franzen et al. (2009). Journal of Human Evolution. 59: 567-573.
Williams, Kay, Kirk. 2010. New perspectives on anthropoid origins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 4797-4804. PorfirioPhoonman ( talk) 19:32, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
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I am layman reading this, so maybe this is a dumb question, but how is it possible that the suggested beginning of this suborder (70 mya) is before the beginning of the above order of primates at 55 mya? Dg21dg21 ( talk) 14:39, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
The last sentence of the introduction suggests (without citation) that haplorhini birth size and length of childhood dependence are based on "increased complexity of their behavior and natural history", which I feel needs clarification. What does "complexity of their natural history" mean? Or does complexity refer just to their behavior? In which case there is no relevant information given about their "natural history", whatever that is supposed to mean. Andraste733 ( talk) 12:50, 22 December 2023 (UTC)