Gorilla I. Geoffroy 1852

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 111-184 : 181

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Gorilla I. Geoffroy 1852 , C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 36: 933.

Type Species: Troglodytes gorilla Savage 1847

Synonyms: Pseudogorilla Elliot 1913 .

Species and subspecies: 2 species with 4 subspecies:

Species Gorilla beringei Matschie 1903

Subspecies Gorilla beringei subsp. beringei Matschie 1903

Subspecies Gorilla beringei subsp. graueri Matschie 1914

Species Gorilla gorilla (Savage 1847)

Subspecies Gorilla gorilla subsp. gorilla Savage 1847

Subspecies Gorilla gorilla subsp. diehli Matschie 1904

Discussion: A subgenus of Pan according to Tuttle (1967); but see Groves (1989) who stated that they are not closely related. Included in Homo by Watson et al. (2001). Included in Hominini by McKenna and Bell (1997), but as a subtribe Gorillina , separate from Hominina (= Pan and Homo ).