Primates

Question 1

Order

Answer 1

Primates, cheek teeth bunodont, grasping ability, short muzzle, elaboration of cerebral cortex.

Question 2

Suborder (Promisians)

Answer 2

Strepsirhini, moist, hairless skin surrounding nostrils, nostrils with crescentic slits, most taxa restricted to Madagascar

Question 3

Family (Aye-aye)

Answer 3

Daubentoniidae, Middle finger with long claw for extracting insects from wood, tail long

Question 4

Family (Lorises and pottos)

Answer 4

Loridae, Most with shirt/absent tails, generally slow-moving

Question 5

Family (Bushbabbies)

Answer 5

Galagonidae, leaping and bounding locomotion through trees, long tails

Question 6

Family (Lemur)

Answer 6

Lemuridae, more diurnal than other strepsirhines, more prominent rostrum than in most strepsirhines

Question 7

Suborder (Monkeys, apes, trasiers)

Answer 7

Haplorhini, Uterus simplex, no area of moist, hairless skin around nostrils

Question 8

Family (Trasiers)

Answer 8

Tarsiidae, SE Asian islands, long tails, skilled at bounding, can rotate neck almost 180, very large orbitals

Question 9

Infraorder (New world monkeys)

Answer 9

Platyrrhini, nostrils widely separated, open to sides

Question 10

Family (New world monkeys)

Answer 10

Cebidae, most with prehensile tails, pollex not completely opposable but hallux is

Question 11

Family (Marmosets, tamarins)

Answer 11

Callitrichidae, hallux with nail, other digits clawed

Question 12

Infraorder (Old world monkeys)

Answer 12

Catarrhini, nostrils open forward or down, not widely seperated

Question 13

Family (Old world monkeys)

Answer 13

Cercopithecidae, tail not prehensile

Question 14

Family (Gibbons)

Answer 14

Hylobatidae, arboreal, long arms, tail absent reduced pollex

Question 15

Family (Gorillas, chimps, orangutan, humans)

Answer 15

Hominidae, lack tails, hallux not opposable, pollex enlarged