Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775) . De generis humani varietate nativa, p. 37.

TYPE LOCALITY: Gabon, Mayoumba .

DISTRIBUTION: S Cameroon; Gabon; S Congo Republic; Uganda; W Tanzania; E and N Zaire; W Central African Republic; Guinea to W Nigeria, south to Congo River in W Africa.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered in the wild, Threatened in captivity; IUCN - Endangered as P. t. verus, otherwise Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: adolfifriederici, angustimanus, aubryi, calvescens, calvus, castanomale, chimpanse, cottoni, ellioti, fuliginosus, fuscus, graueri, hecki, ituriensis, koolookamba, lagaros, leucoprymnus, livingstonii, mafuca, marungensis, nahani, niger, ochroleucus, oertzeni, papio, pfeifferi, purschei, pusillus, raripilosus, reuteri, satyrus, schneideri, schubotzi, schweinfurthii, steindachneri, tschego, vellerosus, verus, yambuyae.

COMMENTS: For authorship of this name, see the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1988).