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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER PRIMATES
--> SUBORDER HAPLORRHINI
--> INFRAORDER SIMIIFORMES
--> SUPERFAMILY Hominoidea
--> FAMILY Hominidae
GENUS Gorilla
| Author: | I. Geoffroy, 1852. | | Citation: | C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 36: 933. | | Type Species: | Troglodytes gorilla Savage, 1847. | | Comments: | A subgenus of Pan according to Tuttle (1967); but see Groves (1989) who stated that they are not closely related. Included in Homo by Watson et al. (2001). Included in Hominini by McKenna and Bell (1997), but as a subtribe Gorillina, separate from Hominina (=Pan and Homo). |
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