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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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