Pongo

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Pongo pygmaeus

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Ordo: Primates
Subordo: Haplorrhini
Infraordo: Simiiformes
Parvordo: Catarrhini
Superfamilia: Hominoidea
Familia: Hominidae
Subfamilia: Ponginae
Genus: Pongo
Species: P. abelii - P. pygmaeus - †P. hooijeri

[edit] Name

Pongo, Lacépède, 1799

Type species: Pongo borneo Lacépède, 1799 (= Simia pygmaeus Linnaeus, 1760)

[edit] Synonyms

• Faunus Oken, 1816 [unavailable]
• Lophotus Fischer, 1813
• Macrobates Bilberg, 1828
• Satyrus Lesson, 1840

[edit] References

• Schwartz, J.H.; Vu The Long; Nguyen Lan Cuong, Le Trung Kha; Tattersall, I. 1995: A review of the Pleistocene hominoid fauna of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (excluding Hylobatidae). Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, (76): 1-24. Abstract & pdf
• Pongo on Mammal Species of the World.
  Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed).

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