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Taxon: Genus Pongo Lacépède, 1799 - orangutan (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name Lacépède, 1799:4.
Original rank
Original spelling

Types

Type ofPongidae (Family) Elliot, 1913 Ref: J.G. Fleagle, 1998: 580. [implicit]
Type ofPonginae (Subfamily) Elliot, 1913 Ref: E. Delson et al. (eds.), 2000: xxvi. [inferred]
Type, by original designationPongo pygmaeus (C. Linnaeus, 1760)

Synonyms

Accepted namePan (Genus) Oken, 1816 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full nameorang-oetans

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nameorangutan
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