Gorilla gorilla (Savage and Wyman, 1847) . Boston J. Nat. Hist., 5:417.

TYPE LOCALITY: Gabon, Gabon Estuary, Mpongwe country .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Nigeria, Cameroon, Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea), Congo Republic, SW Central African Republic, Gabon, N and E Zaire, SW Uganda, N Rwanda.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered as G. g. berengei and G. g. graueri, otherwise Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: adrotes, beringei, castaneiceps, diehli, ellioti, gigas, gina, graueri, halli, hansmeyeri, jacobi, manyema, matschiei, mayenta, mikenensis, rex-pygmaeorum, savagei, schwartzi, uellensis, zenkeri .