Talk:Dendropithecidae

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Primatologist402

I am sorry, but the changes made in the summer of 2019 are completely wrong. You cannot just take the name of a clearly defined family (Denropithecidae) a apply it to a new clade which contains a part of that family and a huge subfamily of another (hitherto) family. You have to publish this usage first, only then you can use it at all, not to mention in an encyclopaedia. In other words: Dendropithecidae is still only Dendropithecus, Simiolus and possibly Micropithecus (i.e. from the perspective of the 2019 a paraphyletic taxon, but there are also other studies with different results) and the clade described in the current version of this article is an unnamed clade, but definitely not "Dendropithecidae". Primatologist402 (talk) 11:41, 7 January 2020 (UTC)Reply