Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760) . Amoenit. Acad., 6:68.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Borneo" .

DISTRIBUTION: Sumatra, NW of Lake Toba (Indonesia); discontinuous in Borneo.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as P. p. abelii and P. p. pygmaeus, otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: abelii, abongensis, agrias, batangtuensis, bicolor, bornaensis, brookei, curtus, dadappensis, deliensis, genepaiensis, gigantica, landakkensis, langkatensis, morio, owenii, rantarensis, rufus, satyrus, skalauensis, sumatranus, tuakensis, wallichii, wurmbii.

COMMENTS: On the nomenclature, see Groves and Holthuis (1985). Reviewed by Groves (1971a, Mammalian Species, 4).