Pongidae

Translingual

Etymology

Pongo +‎ -idae

Proper noun

Pongidae

2. (obsolete) A taxonomic family within the order Primates – apes excluding humans.
   • 1962 June, Paul Parakkal, William Montagna, Richard A. Ellis, “The skin of primates XI. The skin of the white-browed gibbon (Hylobates Hoolock)”, in The Anatomical Record‎^[1], volume 143, →DOI, page 169:

     The details of the structure of its skin show that the gibbon is more divergent from the hominoid line than the skin of the other members of the Pongidae.

   • 1967, Benjamin. B. Beck, “A Study of Problem Solving by Gibbons”, in Behaviour‎^[2], volume 28, number 1/2, pages 95-109:

     In summaries of the performance of primate groups in experimental situations such as those used by Köhler (1959) to investigate the phenomenon of insight, Yerkes & Yerkes (1929), Drescher & Trendelenberg (1927) and Spence (1937) note that the gibbon (Hylobates sp.) is less capable of the solution of such problems than are other genera of the family Pongidae (the anthropoid apes).

4. (obsolete) A taxonomic family within the order Primates – great apes excluding humans.
   • 1993, Retief, J.D., Winkfein, R.J., Dixon, G.H. et al., “Evolution of protamine P1 genes in primates”, in Journal of Molecular Evolution‎^[3], volume 37, →DOI, pages 426–434:

     Protamine P1 genes have been sequenced by PCR amplification and direct DNA sequencing from 9 primates representing 5 major families, Cebidae (new world monkeys), Cercopithecidae (old world monkeys), Hylobatidae (gibbons), Pongidae (gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzee), and Hominidae (human).

6. (archaic) A taxonomic family within the order Primates – Synonym of Ponginae.
   • 2003, Linda J. Lowenstine, “A Primer of Primate Pathology: Lesions and Nonlesions”, in Toxicologic Pathology‎^[4], volume 31(Suppl), →DOI, page 96:

     The apes (often called "hominids") include the "lesser" apes or gibbons (family: Hylobatidae) from Asia, and the "great apes" including the orangutans from Asia (family: Pongidae) and the chimpanzees and gorillas (family:Hominidae) from Africa.