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I GREATLY regret that I did not make myself entirely clear in my last communication1. Dr Corbet implies that I rejected the name Gorilla graueri because it referred to an atypical population; this is not the case. I am well aware that the name would have to stand for the sub-species were it the earliest available name. I tried to show, however, that it is not the earliest available name.
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GROVES, C. Nomenclature of the “Eastern Lowland Gorilla”. Nature 215, 1172 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151172a0
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