hylobatidとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hylobatid (複数形 hylobatids)

1. (zoology) Any species of the family Hylobatidae; a gibbon.
   • 1972, Elwyn L. Simons, David R. Pilbeam, Hominoid Paleoprimatology, Russell Tuttle (editor), The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, page 55,

     The principal resemblances between pliopithecines and living hylobatids are found in the skull and dentition (Zapfe 1958).

   • 2001, D. R. Begun, 10: African and Eurasian Miocene hominoids and the origins of Hominidae, Louis de Bonis, George D. Koufos, Peter Andrews (editors), Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe, Volume 2, page 238,

     In the absence of an obvious cause, it must be considered unlikely that hylobatids and great apes (including fossil great apes) would have acquired all of these characters independently.

   • 2007, Aaron G. Filler, Axial Character Seriation in Mammals‎^[1], page 120:

     However, in cercopithecoids and in hylobatids, the transverse processes are completely embedded in the septum.