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genus

orangutan
Pongo Lacépède, 1799

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Chordata - chordates » class Mammalia - mammals » order Primates - primates » family Hominidae - hominids » subfamily Ponginae

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Troglodytes Geoffroy, 1812

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Number of records: 8

species Pongo abelii Lesson, 1827 - Sumatran Orang-utan

species Pongo devosi Schwartz et al., 1995 ^†

species Pongo duboisi Drawhorn, 1995 ^†

species Pongo javensis Drawhorn, 1995 ^†

species Pongo palaeosumatrensis Hooijer, 1948 ^†

species Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760) - Bornean Orangutan

species Pongo tapanuliensis Nurcahyo, Meijaard, Nowak, Fredriksson & Groves, 2017 - Tapanuli orangutan

species Pongo weidenreichi (Hooijer, 1948) ^†

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