Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)

Amori, Giovanni, Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Decher, Jan, Assou, Delagnon, Gippoliti, Spartaco & Luiselli, Luca, 2016, Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 201-244 : 224

Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775) ◉

HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — Pan troglodytes verus Schwarz, 1934 was the subspecies found in Togo. This IUCN EN subspecies is extinct in Togo ( Mallon et al. 2015), probably since about 1978 ( Lee et al. 1988; Brownell 2003), but knowledge on the species was so scarce in West Africa that its occurrence was probably overlooked in several countries (Gippoliti, pers. obs.). For instance, in 1893, well before its actual date of extinction in Togo, Matschie (1893b) considered this species to be extinct in Togo (but it was at that time still found in Ashanti, Ghana). This fact clearly shows that the chimpanzee was already exceedingly rare inTogo for several decades before its extinction.

VOUCHERS. — A voucher skull originating from Atakpamé collected on 22.XII.1911, is deposited in the ZMB (ZMB_Mam_83682).