Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Mammalia (class)
10. Primates (order)
11. Hominoidea (superfamily)
12. Hominidae (family)
13. Gorilla (genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Species of intelligent, social hominid, the largest living primate, having a large head, broad chest, long arms, a flat nose with large nostrils, and fur that is black with a silver saddle on the back of adult males. The eastern gorilla differs from the western gorilla in being larger, darker, lacking an overhanging tip on its nose, having a more robust body, being less arboreal, and typically living in a larger family group of up to 40 individuals. In some classifications, both the Eastern Gorilla and the Western Gorilla are classified as a single species.