Skip to content

Data Portal

Explore and download the Museum’s research and collections data.
  1. Home
  2. Data
  3. Collection specimens
  4. Specimens
  5. 1939.3415

1939.3415

Classification
Scientific name: Gorilla gorilla gorilla Savage, 1847
Author: Savage, 1847
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Gorilla
Species: gorilla
Subspecies: gorilla
Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Primates; Haplorrhini; Simiiformes; Hominoidea; Hominidae
Location
Locality: Punta Mbonda, [Rio Muni Province], Spanish Guinea
Country: Equatorial Guinea
Continent: Africa
Higher geography: Africa; Equatorial Guinea
Decimal latitude: 2.1000
Decimal longitude: 9.7667
Verbatim latitude: 02 06 00 N
Verbatim longitude: 009 46 00 E
Collection event
Recorded by: T A. Barnes
Identification
Type status: holotype
Determinations:
Names Types FiledAs
Gorilla gorilla gorilla Savage, 1847 Yes
Specimen
Catalogue number: 1939.3415
Collection code: ZOO ( Zoology)
Sub department: LS Mammals
Other catalog numbers: NHMUK:ecatalogue:3917155
Registration code: MA
Donor name: 2nd Baron L. Walter Rothschild FRS
Individual count: 1
Sex: male
Life stage: adult
Record
Occurrence ID: 05d92070-eb7b-4a88-8464-5380924b2516
Modified: 2021-07-27T16:44:41+00:00
Created: 2007-05-28T06:16:39+00:00

Location

Cite this as

We track changes to records and therefore you have a choice of citation options:

To cite the most up to date record data use the Latest URL.

Or to cite this specific version of a record's data, ensuring any followers of the link see the same data every time they visit the link, use the Version URL.

Version Permanent URL for this version of the record data:

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/05d92070-eb7b-4a88-8464-5380924b2516/1748251284062

Retrieved: 10 Jun 2025 05:11:42 (UTC)

Latest Permanent URL for the most up to date record data:

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/05d92070-eb7b-4a88-8464-5380924b2516

Retrieved: 10 Jun 2025 05:11:42 (UTC)

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library icon Biodiversity Heritage Library 
Catalogue of Life icon Catalogue of Life 
GBIF icon GBIF 

Additional Information

Created 2007-05-28T06:16:39+00:00
Last updated 2021-07-27T16:44:41+00:00
Format DWC
License CC0-1.0
Dataset collection-specimens
Dataset ID 56e711e6-c847-4f99-915a-6894bb5c5dea
Resource Specimens
Resource ID 05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb