Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)

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

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scientific name	Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)
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Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760) View in CoL . Amoenit. Acad., 6:68.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Borneo" .

DISTRIBUTION: Sumatra, NW of Lake Toba ( Indonesia); discontinuous in Borneo.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as P. p. abelii and P. p. pygmaeus , otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: abelii , abongensis, agrias, batangtuensis, bicolor , bornaensis, brookei , curtus , dadappensis, deliensis, genepaiensis, gigantica , landakkensis, langkatensis, morio , owenii , rantarensis, rufus , satyrus , skalauensis, sumatranus, tuakensis , wallichii, wurmbii.

COMMENTS: On the nomenclature, see Groves and Holthuis (1985). Reviewed by Groves (1971a, Mammalian Species, 4).