Anthropopithecus oertzeni Matschie, 1914

Turni, Hendrik, 2024, Type specimens of Primates (Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zootaxa 5543 (2), pp. 151-194 : 184-185

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.1

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scientific name

Anthropopithecus oertzeni Matschie, 1914
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Anthropopithecus oertzeni Matschie, 1914 View in CoL

Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, p. 327 Current valid name: Pan troglodytes troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)

Holotype: ZMB 83867 (skin) / ZMB 83716 (= A 60.05,1, skeleton), male, adult; “ Bascho Nordkamerun ” [Basho, N Cameroon]; collected by von Oertzen, 1905.

Paratypes: ZMB 83607, skin; ZMB 83649, skin; ZMB 83817, skin; ZMB 83642, skin; ZMB 83647, skin [missing], Daten; Kentu at Donga [ Donga river ], Nigeria / Cameroon, collected by Adametz 1907–1909.

Comment:According to Matschie (1914, p.328), the skull of the holotype was Hauptmann von Oertzen's private property. Its current whereabouts are unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Hominidae

Genus

Anthropopithecus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Hominidae

Genus

Pan

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