Gorilla gorilla (Savage and Wyman, 1847)
Diploid Number: 48
Distribution: SE Nigeria, Cameroon, Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea), Congo Republic, SW Central African Republic, Gabon, N and E Zaire, SW Uganda, N Rwanda.
Status: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered as G.g. berengei and G. g. graueri, otherwise Vulnerable.
File: JPG; Photo: Dr. Mariano Rocchi, Istituto di Genetica, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari - Italy m.rocchi@area.ba.cnr.it
Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758
Diploid Number: 46
Distribution: Cosmopolitan.
Status: CITES - Appendix II as Order Primates; absolutely not endangered.
File: GIF; Photo: David McDonald, Laboratory of Pathology of Seattle
More Human Chromosomes:46,XY G-banded karyotype - 550 band level
composite karyotype created from 5 chromosome spreads
Courtesy of David McDonald, Laboratory of Pathology of Seattle 46,XX G-banded karyotype and corresponding chromosome spread
Courtesy of David McDonald, Laboratory of Pathology of Seattle 46,XY G-banded karyotype and corresponding chromosome spread
Courtesy of David McDonald, Laboratory of Pathology of Seattle
Pan paniscus Schwartz, 1929
Diploid Number: 48
Distribution: Congo Basin of Zaire, on south side of Congo River.
Status: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.
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Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)
Diploid Number: 48
Distribution: S Cameroon; Gabon; S Congo Republic; Uganda; W Tanzania; E and N Zaire; W Central African Republic; Guinea to W Nigeria, south to Congo River in W Africa.
Status: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered in the wild, Threatened in captivity; IUCN - Endangered as P. t. verus, otherwise Vulnerable.
File: JPG; Photo: Dr. Mariano Rocchi, Istituto di Genetica, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari - Italy m.rocchi@area.ba.cnr.it
Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)
Diploid Number: 48
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 - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered
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