Gorilla (I. Geoffroy, 1852)

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 243-277 : 276

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353122

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7281022

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scientific name

Gorilla (I. Geoffroy, 1852)
status

 

Gorilla (I. Geoffroy, 1852) View in CoL . C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 36:933.

TYPE SPECIES: Troglodytes gorilla Savage and Wyman, 1847 View in CoL .

SYNONYMS: Pseudogorilla .

COMMENTS: A subgenus of Pan according to Tuttle (1967); but see Groves (1989) who stated that they are not closely related.

Tuttle, R. H. 1967. Knuckle-walking and the evolution of hominoid hands. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, n. s., 26: 171 - 206.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Hominidae