Sumatran orangutan
Appearance
Sumatran orangutan | |
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File:Sumatra-Orang-Utan im Pongoland.jpg | |
Male at Leipzig Zoological Garden, Leipzig | |
File:Sumatra-Orang-Utan Pongo pygmaeus abeli Tierpark Hellabrunn-1.jpg | |
Female with infant at the Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich | |
Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Hominidae |
Genus: | Pongo |
Species: | P. abelii
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Binomial name | |
Pongo abelii | |
File:Mapa distribuicao pongo abelii.png | |
Distribution in Indonesia |
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The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is one of the three species of orangutans. Found only in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, it is rarer than the Bornean orangutan but more common than the recently identified Tapanuli orangutan, also found in Sumatra.
References[change]
- ↑ Singleton, Ian; Wich, Serge A.; Nowak, Matthew G.; Usher, Graham; Utami-Atmoko, Sri Suchi (2017). "Pongo abelii (errata version published in 2018)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T121097935A123797627.
- ↑ Lesson, René-Primevère (1827). Manuel de mammalogie ou Histoire naturelle des mammifères (in français). Paris: Roret, Libraire. p. 32.