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Simia troglodytes
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Translingual
Etymology
From mul la sīmia monkey, ape + la troglodytes cave-dwelling, coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1776. He took the specific epithet from Homo troglodytes, which Carl Linnaeus had used in 1758, and which did not refer to the chimpanzee.
Proper noun
f 1 Simia troglodytes la
mul obsolete species family Simiidae the chimpanzee, now placed in multiple species in the genus Pan
Usage notes
This species became obsolete in 1816, when Lorenz Oken transferred it to Pan troglodytes species, but continued to see sporadic use for some time afterward.
mul Taxonomic names (obsolete)