Common chimpanzee

The common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), kent as the robust chimpanzee an aw, is a species o great ape. Colloquially, the common chimpanzee is aften cried the chimpanzee (or "chimp"), tho this term can be uised tae refer tae baith species in the genus Pan: the common chimpanzee an the closely relatit bonobo, umwhile cried the pygmy chimpanzee. Evidence frae fossils an DNA sequencing shaws baith species o chimpanzees are the sister group tae the modren human lineage.

Common chimpanzee[1] Temporal range: 4–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Faimily:	Hominidae
Genus:	Pan
Species:	P. troglodytes
Binomial name
Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1776)
distribution of common chimpanzee. 1. Pan troglodytes verus. 2. P. t. ellioti. 3. P. t. troglodytes. 4. P. t. schweinfurthii.
Synonyms
Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1776 Troglodytes troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1776) Troglodytes niger E. Geoffroy, 1812 Pan niger (E. Geoffroy, 1812) Anthropopithecus troglodytes (Sutton, 1883)