Pan troglodytes

Translingual

Chimpanzee

Etymology

The present name was given by Lorenz Oken in 1816 after reassigning the species to the genus Pan from Simia troglodytes, where it had been placed by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1776. The use of the specific epithet troglodytes (“cave-dwelling”) was taken from the species Homo troglodytes, which was coined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 and did not refer to the chimpanzee, which does not live in caves.

Proper noun

Pan troglodytes m

A taxonomic species within the family Hominidae – the common chimpanzee.

Hypernyms

(species): Primates - order; Hominidae - family; Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Panina - subtribe; Pan - genus

References

Pan troglodytes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pan troglodytes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Pan troglodytes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Pan_troglodytes at Animal Diversity Web
Pan troglodytes in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.
Pan troglodytes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Pan troglodytes at Encyclopedia of Life
Pan troglodytes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Pan troglodytes at Paleology Database

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