Gorilla beringei Matschie, 1903

Turni, Hendrik, 2024, Type specimens of Primates (Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zootaxa 5543 (2), pp. 151-194 : 181

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14508074

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Gorilla beringei Matschie, 1903
status

 

Gorilla beringeri [sic] Matschie, 1903 View in CoL

Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, p. 257

Current valid name: Gorilla beringei Matschie, 1903 View in CoL

Holotype: ZMB 13254 , male, adult, skull, parts of skeleton; “zwischen Kivu-See und Albert-Edward-See, Vulkan Kirungaya Sabinyo, 3.150m” [ Mount Sabyinyo (Virunga Mountains), in 3.150m altitude, between Kivu Lake and Lake Edward ], Rwanda; collected by von Beringe, 1902.

Comment: The description is based on a skull and an incomplete skeleton. The rest was lost during transport by a hyena (Matschie, 1903, p. 253).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Hominidae

Genus

Gorilla

Loc

Gorilla beringei Matschie, 1903

Turni, Hendrik 2024
2024
Loc

Gorilla beringeri [sic]

Matschie 1903
1903
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