Order Primates Author Colin P. Groves text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 243 277 book chapter 193461 10.5281/zenodo.7353122 0df816bd-0cef-463a-94c2-b03e13ea7128 1-56098-217-9 7353122 Papio Erxleben, 1777 . Systema Regni Animalis, 1, Mammalia:xxx, 15 . TYPE SPECIES: Cynocephalus papio Desmarest, 1820 (= Simia hamadryas Linnaeus, 1758 ). SYNONYMS: Chaeropitheus Gervais, 1839 ; Comopithecus J. A. Allen, 1925 ; Cynocephalus J. A. Allen, 1925 ; Hamadryas Lesson, 1840 . COMMENTS: Opinion 1199 of the International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature (1982) fixed this as the first available name, and fixed the type species.