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Pan troglodytes

Description

Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach 1775)

[Simia] troglodytes Blumenbach 1775, De generis humani varietate native: 37.

Type Locality: Gabon, Mayoumba.

Vernacular Names: Common Chimpanzee.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Pan troglodytes subsp. troglodytes Blumenbach 1775

Subspecies Pan troglodytes subsp. schweinfurthii Giglioli 1872

Subspecies Pan troglodytes subsp. vellerosus Gray 1862

Subspecies Pan troglodytes subsp. verus Schwarz 1934

Distribution: S Cameroon; Gabon; S Republic of Congo; Uganda; W Tanzania; E and N Dem. Rep. Congo; W Central African Republic; Guinea to W Nigeria, south to Congo River in W Africa.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered in the wild, Threatened in captivity; IUCN – Endangered as P. t. verus, P. t. troglodytes, P. t. schweinfurthii, and P. t. vellerosus.

Discussion: For authorship of this name, see the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1988). Watson et al. (2001:315) used the name Homo niger, on the grounds that Homo troglodytes would be a secondary homonym of Homo troglodytes Linnaeus, 1758 (= Homo sapiens); but the new edition of the Code (in force since January 1 st, 2000) permits a senior homonym to be rejected if unused since 1899 (Art. 23.9.), so Homo troglodytes would be an acceptable combination for the chimpanzee. The species has been most recently reviewed by Jones et al. (1996).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, pp. 111-184 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Blumenbach
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Primates
Family
Hominidae
Genus
Pan
Species
troglodytes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1988. Corrigenda. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 45 (4): 304.
  • Watson, E. E., S. Easteal, and D. Penny. 2001. Homo genus: A review of the classification of humans and the great apes. Pp. 307 - 318, in Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millenia, (P. V. Tobias, M. A. Raath, J. Moggi-Cecchi, and G. A. Doyle, eds.). Firenze University Press and Witwatersrand University Press, Florence and Johannesburg. 416 pp.
  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
  • Jones, C., C. A. Jones, J. K. Jones, Jr., and D. E. Wilson. 1996. Pan troglodytes. Mammalian Species, 529: 1 - 9.