Pug

A pug (puggie) is onie member o twa o the three groupins o simian primates. Thir twa groupins is the New Warld an Auld Warld pugs o whilk thegither thare is naur-haund 200 species. Acause o thair sibness tae pugs, apes sic as chimpanzees an gibbons is aft incorrectly cawed monkeys. Thare's nae parteecular chairacterisation whilk aw pugs haes.

Monkeys Temporal range: Late Eocene–Present[1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Wild Macaca sinica in Yala Naitional Park, Sri Lanka
Scienteefic clessification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes [a]
Groups included
Platyrrhini Cercopithecidae †Parapithecidae
Cladeestically includit but tradeetionally excludit taxa
Hominoidea

Notes

1. When Carl Linnaeus defined the genus Simia in the 10t edeetion o Systema Naturae, it includit aw non-human monkeys an apes (simians).^[2] Awtho "monkey" wis niver a taxonomic name, an is insteid a vernacular name for a paraphyletic group, its members faw unner the infraorder Simiiformes.