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GENUS Manis

Author:Linnaeus, 1758.
Citation:Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 36.
Type Species:Manis pentadactyla Linnaeus, 1758.
Comments:Family reviewed by Mohr (1961). Morphological evidence suggests a subdivision of the genus into two genera (Manis and Phataginus), see Corbet and Hill (1992) and Patterson (1978); or four subgenera (Manis, Paramanis, Smutsia, and Uromanis), see Meester (1972a), Meester et al. (1986), and Mohr (1961). Gaudin and Wible (1999) conducted a cladistical analysis of 67 cranial characters in extant pangolins plus one fossil genus and found that the Asian pangolins form a monophyletic clade while the African species form a paraphyletic assemblage.
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SUBGENUS Manis

SPECIES crassicaudata

SPECIES pentadactyla

SUBSPECIES pentadactyla

SUBSPECIES auritus

SUBSPECIES pusilla

SUBGENUS Paramanis

SPECIES culionensis

SPECIES javanica

SUBGENUS Smutsia

SPECIES gigantea

SPECIES temminckii

SUBGENUS Uromanis

SPECIES tetradactyla

SUBGENUS Phataginus

SPECIES tricuspis

SUBSPECIES tricuspis

SUBSPECIES mabirae

Synonyms:

    Pangolin Gray, 1873
    Pangolinus Rafinesque, 1815
    Pangolinus Rafinesque, 1821
    Phatages Sundevall, 1843
    Phatagin Gray, 1865
    Pholidotus Brisson, 1762
    Triglochinopolis Fitzinger, 1872

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