Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla
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| Kingdom | ANIMALIA | ||||||||
| Phylum | CHORDATA | ||||||||
| Class | MAMMALIA | ||||||||
| Order | PRIMATES | ||||||||
| Family | HOMINIDAE | ||||||||
| Common Name/s | WESTERN LOWLAND GORILLA (E) | ||||||||
| Infra-specific Authority | (Savage & Wyman, 1847) | ||||||||
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| Red List Category & Criteria | EN A2cd ver 2.3 (1994) | ||||||||
| Year Assessed | 2000 | ||||||||
| Assessor/s | Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | ||||||||
| Evaluator/s | Mittermeier, R.A., Konstant, W.R. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority) | ||||||||
| Justification | Occurs over a wide area where there is relatively low human population densities. However, the subpopulations are in general less dense and more patchy than those of some of the chimpanzee subspecies. | ||||||||
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Angola (Cabinda) Cameroon Central African Republic Congo Congo, The Democratic Republic of the [RE] Equatorial Guinea Gabon |
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| System | Terrestrial | ||||||||
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Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Lee, P.C., Thornback, J. and Bennett, E.L. 1988. Threatened Primates of Africa. The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. |
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| Citation: | Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group 2000. Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 October 2006. |
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