hylobatid

Noun

hylobatid (plural hylobatids)

1. Any species of the family Hylobatidae; a gibbon.
   • The principal resemblances between pliopithecines and living hylobatids are found in the skull and dentition (Zapfe 1958).1972, Elwyn L. Simons, David R. Pilbeam, “Hominoid Paleoprimatology”, in Russell Tuttle, editor, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, page 55
   • 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.2001, D. R. Begun, “10: African and Eurasian Miocene hominoids and the origins of Hominidae”, in Louis de Bonis, George D. Koufos, Peter Andrews, editors, Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in...