Pongo pygmaeus, Linnaeus, 1760

Brandon-Jones, Douglas, Groves, Colin P. & Jenkins, Paulina D., 2016, The type specimens and type localities of the orangutans, genus Pongo Lacépède, 1799 (Primates: Hominidae), Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 2051-2095 : 2086

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2016.1190414

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4328263

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/85188D0D-FA5E-FFC2-5665-FD90FE5D4475

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Carolina

scientific name

Pongo pygmaeus
status

 

Pongo pygmaeus View in CoL probably unnamed possible subspecies

Known only from Kutai NP, Sangatta and Sungai Menganne (0°49 ʹ N 117°57 ʹ E, USNM) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Diagnosed only genetically; cranially resembles Pongo p. pygmaeus . Pongo abelii Lesson, 1827 Pongo Abelii Lesson, 1827 Simia Gigantica Pearson, 1841 P [ithecus] bicolor Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1842 Pithecus Brookei Blyth, 1853 (in part) [Satyrus] sundaicus sumatranus Mayer, 1856 P [ithecus] sumatranus abongensis Selenka, 1896 P [ithecus] sumatranus deliensis Selenka, 1896 P [ithecus] sumatranus langkatensis Selenka, 1896 (published in synonymy, therefore unavailable) [?] Pongo pygmaeus palaeosumatrensis Hooijer, 1948 North Sumatra, Indonesia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Hominidae

Genus

Pongo

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