Pan Oken 1816 (chimpanzee)

Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae

Invalid subtaxa: Anthropopithecus de Blainville 1839, Bonobo Tratz and Heck 1954, Chimpansee Voigt 1831, Engeco Haeckel 1866, Fsihego De Pauw 1905, Hylanthropus Gloger 1841, Mimetes Leach 1820, Pongo Haeckel 1866, Pseudanthropos Reichenbach 1862, Simia (Anthropopithecus) de Blainville 1839, Theranthropus Brookes 1828, Troglodytes Geoffroy 1812 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Panina according to T. Harrison 2010

See also Andrews 1992, Andrews and Cronin 1982, Cameron 1997, Fleagle 2013, Gray 1825, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1985, Jones et al. 1996, Lönnberg 1917 and Zalmout et al. 2010

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Pan paniscus Pan troglodytes

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Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pan in the database

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