English zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater presents a…

English zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater presents a painting of the okapi before the Zoological Society of London in 1901 that depicts its physical features with some clarity.

Much confusion arises regarding the taxonomical status of this newly discovered animal.

Sir Harry Johnston himself calls it a Helladotherium, or a relative of other extinct giraffids.

Based on the description of the okapi by Pygmies, who referr to it as a "horse", Sclater names the species Equus johnstoni.

Subsequently, zoologist Ray Lankester declares that the okapi represent an unknown genus of the Giraffidae, which he places in its own genus, Okapia, and assigns the name Okapia johnstoni to the species.