Published December 3, 2024 | Version v1

Papio papio

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany. & [current address] Heinlenstrasse 16, 72072 Tübingen, Germany.

Description

Cynocephalus olivaceus Geoffroy, 1851

Collection de Mammiferes du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, p. 34

Current valid name: Papio papio (Desmarest, 1820)

ZMB 6748, skull; Bismarckburg, Togo; collected by Büttner, 1890/1891

Comment: Geoffroy's description of Cynocephalus olivaceus is based on specimens collected in Guinea, Golf von Benin [Gulf of Guinea] by Cabaret in 1847. Due to the date of discovery (year, collector), the specimen ZMB 6748, marked as a type specimen of Cynocephalus olivaceus, could not be a type.

Notes

Published as part of Turni, Hendrik, 2024, Type specimens of Primates (Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, pp. 151-194 in Zootaxa 5543 (2) on page 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14385859

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMB
Material sample ID
ZMB 6748
Scientific name authorship
Desmarest
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Primates
Family
Cercopithecidae
Genus
Papio
Species
papio
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Papio papio (Desmarest, 1820) sec. Turni, 2024