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Mammalia in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae

Mammals in Carl Linnaeus's classification

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Through Homo, Human and Monkey

Animals that suckle their young by means of lactiferous teats. In external and internal structure they resemble man: most of them are quadrupeds; and with man, their natural enemy, inhabit the surface of the Earth. The largest, though fewest in number, inhabit the ocean.

Linnaeus divided the mammals based on the number, situation, and structure of their teeth; mammals have the following characteristics:

  • Heart: two auricles, 2 ventricles. Warm, dark red blood;
  • Lungs: respires alternately;
  • Jaw: incombent, covered. Teeth usually within jaw;
  • Teats: lactiferous;
  • Organs of sense: tongue, nostrils, eyes, ears, and papillae of the skin;
  • Covering: hair, which is scanty in warm climates, hardly any on aquatics;
  • Supports: four feet, except in aquatics; and in most a tail. Walks on the Earth and speaks.

Oldfield Thomas scrutinized Linnaeus's chapter on mammals in 1911 and attempted to find missing type species and type localities.

Primates

Primates have four cutting upper parallel fore-teeth, except in some bat species which have two or none; solitary tusks in each jaw, one on each side; two pectoral teats; two feet and hands; flattened, oval nails; and they eat fruits.

Homo – humans of different races
  • Homo sapiens
    • Homo americanus
    • Homo europaeus
    • Homo asiaticus
    • Homo afer
    • Homo monstrosus
  • Homo troglodytes – partly based on myth, partly on orangutans
Simia – monkeys and chimps
  • Simia satyrus – common chimpanzee and Bornean orangutan
  • Simia sylvanus – Barbary macaque
  • Simia sphinx – mandrill
  • Simia apedia – nomen dubium
  • Simia silenus – lion-tailed macaque
  • Simia faunus – species cannot be determined
  • Simia paniscus – red-faced spider monkey
  • Simia diana – Diana monkey
  • Simia cephus – moustached guenon
  • Simia aygula – nomen oblitum for the crab-eating macaque
  • Simia hamadryas – hamadryas baboon
  • Simia jacchus – common marmoset
  • Simia oedipus – cottontop tamarin
  • Simia aethiops – grivet
  • Simia midas – red-handed tamarin
  • Simia cynamolgos – possibly crab-eating macaque
  • Simia apella – tufted capuchin
  • Simia morta – nomen dubium
  • Simia capucina – white-headed capuchin
  • Simia sciurea – common squirrel monkey
  • Simia syrichta – Philippine tarsier
Lemur – lemurs
Vespertilio – bats
  • Vespertilio vampyrus – large flying fox
  • Vespertilio spectrum – spectral vampire bat
  • Vespertilio perspicillatus – Seba's short-tailed bat
  • Vespertilio spasma – lesser false vampire bat
  • Vespertilio leporinus – greater bulldog bat
  • Vespertilio auritus – brown long-eared bat
  • Vespertilio murinus – parti-coloured bat

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