Please help me with my project on Orangutans

Subject: Please help me with my project on Orangutans

Date: Fri Mar 26 07:55:37 1999
Posted by Jenny
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Area of science: Zoology
ID: 922456537.Zo

Message:


Can you please explain to me what the following classification names mean for the orangutan:
superfamily:  Hominoidea
Family:  Pongidae
Genus:  Pongo
species:  pygmaeus

I know they are probably Latin terms but I cannot find there specific meaning.

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