Order Primates Author Colin P. Groves text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 243 277 book chapter 193461 10.5281/zenodo.7353122 0df816bd-0cef-463a-94c2-b03e13ea7128 1-56098-217-9 7353122 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).