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Taxon:
Pongo pygmaeus
(C. Linnaeus, 1760)
- orang-utan
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Natura - nature
..Mundus - physical world
....Naturalia - natural bodies
......Biota
........Domain Eukaryota - eukaryotes
..........Unikonta
............Opisthokonta
..............Holozoa
................Kingdom Animalia - animals
..................Epitheliozoa
....................Eumetazoa - eumetazoans
......................Bilateria - bilaterians
........................Eubilateria
..........................Deuterostomia - deuterostomes
............................Phylum Chordata - chordates
..............................Subphylum Vertebrata - vertebrates
................................Infraphylum Gnathostomata - jawed vertebrates
..................................Superclass Tetrapoda - tetrapods
....................................Reptiliomorpha
......................................Batrachosauria
........................................Amniota
..........................................Synapsida
............................................Therapsida
..............................................Theriodontia
................................................Eutheriodontia
..................................................Cynodontia
....................................................Eucynodontia
......................................................Mammaliamorpha
........................................................Mammaliaformes
..........................................................Holotheria
............................................................Class Mammalia - mammals
..............................................................Theriimorpha
................................................................Theriiformes
..................................................................Trechnotheria
....................................................................Cladotheria
......................................................................Zatheria
........................................................................Subclass Boreosphenida
..........................................................................Theria
............................................................................Infraclass Eutheria
..............................................................................Cohort Placentalia - placentals
................................................................................Magnorder Boreoeutheria
..................................................................................Grandorder Euarchontoglires
....................................................................................Superorder Archonta
......................................................................................Order Primates - primates
........................................................................................Suborder Euprimates
..........................................................................................Infraorder Haplorhini
............................................................................................Parvorder Anthropoidea
..............................................................................................Catarrhini
................................................................................................Superfamily Hominoidea
..................................................................................................Family Hominidae
....................................................................................................Subfamily Ponginae
......................................................................................................Genus Pongo - orangutan
........................................................................................................Species Pongo abelii
........................................................................................................(Species Pongo satyrus)
........................................................................................................Species Pongo pygmaeus - orang-utan
..........................................................................................................Subspecies Pongo pygmaeus morio
..........................................................................................................Subspecies Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus
..........................................................................................................Subspecies Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii
..........................................................................................................(Subspecies Pongo pygmaeus abeli)
..........................................................................................................(Subspecies Pongo pygmaeus abelii)
Authorship
Original name
Linnaeus, 1760:68
Original rank
Subsequent generic combination
Types
Type of
Pongo
(Genus)
Lacépède, 1799
Nominotypical taxon
Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus
(C. Linnaeus, 1760)
Synonyms
Synonym
Homo sylvestris Orang Outang
J. de Bondt, 1658?, nom. inval.
Synonym
Pongo satyrus
(C. Linnaeus, 1758)
Pro parte synonym
Homo nocturnus
C. Linnaeus, 1758
Pro parte synonym
Homo troglodytes
C. Linnaeus, 1758, nom. oblit.
Pro parte synonym
Simia satyrus
C. Linnaeus, 1758
[
D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (eds.), 1993
: 277
]
Vernacular Names
Dutch
:
orang-oetan
English
:
orang-utan
Number of Subtaxa
2013
Available in Systema Naturae 2000
3ss
2005
C.P. Groves
[3ss]
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Last updated: 7 Apr 2012