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Taxon: Genus Pan Oken, 1816 - chimpanzees (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  L. Oken, 1816, nom. cons.
Original name:  [Oken, L.] 1816. Lehrb. Naturgesch. 3 (2): xi, 1230.
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Attributes

Conserved name (nom. cons. [prop.]) [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Art. 14, Rec. 50E.1, App. II-IV] Ref: ICZN, 1985c. Opinion 1368

Types

Type of: Panini (Tribe) Delson, 1977 Ref: C.P. Groves & J. Kingdon, 2013: 53. [inferred]
Type, by subsequent designation: Pan troglodytes (J.F. Blumenbach, 1775) Ref: ICZN, 1985c [new]

Homonyms

Junior homonym (allowed): Pan (Minor planet) (1987 SY)
Junior homonym (allowed): Pan (Moon) M.R. Showalter, 1990

Synonyms

Accepted name (objective): Chimpanzee (Genus) Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1034.
Synonymous name: Anthropopithecus (Genus) de Blainville, 1838 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Bonobo (Genus) Tratz & Heck, 1954 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Chimpansee (Genus) Voigt, in Cuvier, 1831 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 349.
Synonymous name: Engeco (Genus) Haeckel, 1866 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Fsihego (Genus) de Pauw, 1905 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Hylanthropus (Genus) Gloger, 1841 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Mimetes (Genus) Salisb. (1807) Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Pongo (Genus) Lacépède, 1799 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Pseudanthropos (Genus) Reichenbach, 1860 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Theranthropus (Genus) Brookes, 1828 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Troglodytes (Genus) Vieillot, 1809 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name (objective): Chimpanzee (Genus)

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: chimpansees

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: chimpanzees
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