Order:
      Primates

    Suborder:
      Catarrhini

    Family:
      Cercopithecids

    Subfamily:
      Cercopithecins

    Genus and species:
      Papio anubis¹

    Common name:
      English: Olive baboon, Anubis baboon
      Swahili: Nyani

¹ Some authors consider olive and yellow baboons as two subspecies of Papio cynocephalus, P. c. anubis and P. c. cynocephalus