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 Gorilla (I. Geoffroy, 1852) . C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 36:933 . TYPE SPECIES: Troglodytes gorilla Savage and Wyman, 1847 . SYNONYMS: Pseudogorilla . COMMENTS: A subgenus of Pan according to Tuttle (1967) ; but see Groves (1989) who stated that they are not closely related.