Pongo tapanuliensis
Nurcahyo, Meijaard, Nowak, Fredriksson, & Groves in Nater, Mattle-Greminger, Nurcahyo, Nowak, de Manuel, Desai, Groves, Pybus, Sonay, Roos, Lameira, Wich, Askew, Davila-Ross, Fredriksson, de Valles, Casals, Prado-Martinez, Goossens, Verschoor, K. S. Warren, Singleton, D. A. Marques, Pamungkas, Perwitasari-Farajallah, Rianti, Tuuga, I. G. Gut, M. Gut, Orozco-terWengel, Van Schaik, Bertranpetit, Anisimova, Scally, Marques-Bonet, Meijaard, & Krützen, 2017
Tapanuli Orangutan
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Primates |
| Suborder | : Haplorhini |
| Infraorder | : Simiiformes |
| Parvorder | : Catarrhini |
| Superfamily | : Hominoidea |
| Family | : Hominidae |
| Subfamily | : Ponginae |
| Genus | : Pongo |
Species status
Authority citation
Nater, A., Mattle-Greminger, M.P., Nurcahyo, A., Nowak, M.G., de Manuel, M., Desai, T., Groves, C.P., Pybus, M., Sonay, T.B., Roos, C., Lameira, A.R., Wich, S.A., Askew, J., Davila-Ross, M., Fredriksson, G., de Valles, G., Casals, F., Prado-Martinez, J., Goossens, B., Verschoor, E.J., Warren, K.S., Singleton, I., Marques, D.A., Pamungkas, J., Perwitasari-Farajallah, D., Rianti, P., Tuuga, A., Gut, I.G., Gut, M., Orozco-terWengel, P., Schaik, C.P. van, Bertranpetit, J., Anisimova, M., Scally, A., Marques-Bonet, T., Meijaard, E. and Krützen, M. 2017-11. Morphometric, behavioral, and genomic evidence for a new orangutan species. Current Biology 27(22):3487-3498.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.047Original name as described
Pongo tapanuliensis
Type material
MZB 39182
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
near Sugi Tonga, Marancar, Tapanuli (Batang Toru) Forest Complex (1°35'54.1"N, 99°16'36.5"E), South Tapanuli District, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Biogeographic realm
Indomalaya
Country distribution
Indonesia
Taxonomy notes
recently described based on populations previously attributed to P. abelii
Taxonomy notes citation
Nater, A., Mattle-Greminger, M. P., Nurcahyo, A., Nowak, M. G., de Manuel, M., Desai, T., ... & Lameira, A. R. (2017). Morphometric, behavioral, and genomic evidence for a new Orangutan species. Current Biology, 27(22), 3487-3498.
IUCN Red List status
Critically Endangered
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