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Taxon profile

species

Sumatran Orang-utan
Pongo abelii Lesson, 1827

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Primates - primates »  family Hominidae - hominids »  genus Pongo - orangutan

Scientific synonyms

Pongo pygmaeus abelii Lesson, 1827
Pithecus bicolor
Simia gigantica

Images

Pongo abelii - Sumatran Orang-utan

Author: McMammal

Pongo abelii - Sumatran Orang-utan

Author: McMammal

Pongo abelii - Sumatran Orang-utan

male

Author: Michal Sloviak

juvenile animal


Links and literature

EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1000721]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Pongo abelii Lesson, 1827]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Pongo abelii Lesson, 1827]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [95:orangutan&Itemid=438]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Pongo pygmaeus abelii Lesson, 1827]

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