Sumatran orangutan

Sumatran orangutan
Male at Leipzig Zoological Garden, Leipzig
Female with infant at the Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
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
Binomial name
Pongo abelii
Lesson, 1827[3]
Distribution in Indonesia

The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is one of the three species of orangutans. Critically endangered, and 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. Its common name is based on two separate local words, orang 'people; person' and hutan 'forest', derived from Malay,[4] and translates as 'person of the forest'.

  1. ^ Singleton, I.; Wich , S.A.; Nowak, M.; Usher, G.; Utami-Atmoko, S.S. (2023) [amended version of 2017 assessment]. "Pongo abelii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T121097935A247631244. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T121097935A247631244.en.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Lesson, René-Primevère (1827). Manuel de mammalogie ou Histoire naturelle des mammifères (in French). Paris: Roret, Libraire. p. 32.
  4. ^ "Sumatran orangutan". World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2019-06-12.