A PHYLOGENY OF GIBBONS (HYLOBATES SPP) BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERS
A PHYLOGENY OF GIBBONS (HYLOBATES SPP) BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERS
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DOI：
10.1159/000156079
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发表时间：
1982-01-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
WHITTEN, T
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作者：
HAIMOFF, EH;CHIVERS, DJ;WHITTEN, T
摘要基于55个形态和行为特征的相容性分析，对9个类群（敏捷长臂猿、合色长臂猿、白眉长臂猿、克劳斯长臂猿、大长臂猿、莫洛克长臂猿、穆勒长臂猿、毛毛长臂猿和长臂猿）之间的系统发育关系进行了新的估计。这里提出的系统发育与其他研究有些不同，但似乎有一个基本的共识，即长臂猿和长臂猿代表最早的物种形式；敏捷的长臂猿、大长臂猿、长臂猿、穆勒长臂猿和长臂猿代表了物种形成的最新形式；克劳斯长臂猿和胡洛克长臂猿是中间形态。尽管由于化石记录中缺乏长臂猿，关于这些特征的进化方向的假设仍然是主观的，但所使用的方法在其方法上是完全客观的，并且在获得进一步数据时是可重复的。
A new estimate of the phylogenetic relationships among the 9 gibbon taxa [agile gibbon, concolor gibbon, hoolock gibbon, Kloss gibbon, large gibbon, moloch gibbon, Mueller''s gibbon, pileated gibbon and siamang] is presented, based on a compatibility analysis of 55 morphological and behavioral characters. The phylogeny presented here differs somewhat from those of other studies, but there appears to be a basic consensus that the siamang and concolor gibbons represent the earliest forms to speciate; the agile, lar, moloch, Mueller''s and pileated gibbons represent the latest forms to speciate; the Kloss and hoolock gibbons represent intermediate forms. Although the hypotheses regarding the evolutionary direction of these characters remain subjective due to the lack of gibbons in the fossil record, the method used is totally objective in its approach and is repeatable when further data become available.