Baboon

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Baboon[1]
Olive baboon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Subfamily: Cercopithecinae
Tribe: Papionini
Genus: Papio
Erxleben, 1777
Type species
Simia hamadryas
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

Papio hamadryas
Papio papio
Papio anubis
Papio cynocephalus
Papio ursinus
Synonyms
  • Chaeropitheus Gervais, 1839
  • Comopithecus J. A. Allen, 1925
  • Cynocephalus G. Cuvier and É. Geoffroy, 1795
  • Hamadryas Lesson, 1840 (non Hübner, 1804: preoccupied)

Baboons are African and Arabian Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Papio, part of the subfamily