Ardipithecus ramidus was first described as Australopithecus ramidus sp. nov. in White, Suwa, and Aswfaw, 1994. A corrigendum was published in Nature by White, Suwa, and Asfaw (1995). This one-page corrigendum established the genus Ardipithecus with Australopithecus ramidus as the type species.
