The Western Lowland Gorilla is scientifically know as?

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Gorilla gorilla gorilla is the Western Lowland Gorilla’s scientific name—the trinomial indicates it’s the nominate subspecies of the western gorilla species (Gorilla gorilla). The other options refer to eastern gorillas: Gorilla beringei beringei (mountain gorilla) and Gorilla beringei graueri (Grauer’s/eastern lowland gorilla), while Gorilla gorilla diehli is the Cross River gorilla, a different western subspecies.

In zoological naming, a repeated genus and species (a tautonym) plus a third repeated name often marks the nominate subspecies. So “Western = triple G” is an easy mnemonic. Western lowland gorillas live in Central African rainforests and are the most numerous gorilla subspecies, though still critically endangered due to habitat loss, disease, and poaching.