A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Hominidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern GorillaGorilla beringei Matschie, 1903 | HominidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Western GorillaGorilla gorilla (Savage & Wyman, 1847) | HominidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| BonoboPan paniscus Schwarz, 1929 | HominidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| ChimpanzeePan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775) | HominidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sumatran OrangutanPongo abelii Lesson, 1827 | HominidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bornean OrangutanPongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760) | HominidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tapanuli OrangutanPongo tapanuliensis Nurcahyo, Meijaard, Nowak, Fredriksson & Groves in Nater et al., 2017 | HominidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.