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THE attention of the zoological profession is invited to the fact that the proposition is before the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to re-open the case of Simia. In its present form the proposition is for the Commission : (a) absolutely to suppress the generic names Simia and Pithecus and the specific name Simia satyrus, on the ground that retention of these names and the application of the rules to them will produce greater confusion than uniformity; (b) to insert into the Official List of Generic Names, Chimpansee Voigt, 1831, 76, for the chimpanzees Pongo Lacépède, 1799, type pygmaeus 1760, for the orang-utans, and Macaca Lacépède, 1799, type sylvana 1758, for the Barbary ape.
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STILES, C. The Zoological Names Simia, S. satyrus, and Pithecus, and their Possible Suppression. Nature 118, 49 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118049b0
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