Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. |
Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 36. |
Common Name: | Chinese Pangolin |
Type Locality: | Taiwan. |
Distribution: | E Nepal; NE India; E Bangladesh; Burma; Thailand; N Cambodia; N Laos; N Vietnam; C and S China, including Hainan Isl; Taiwan. |
Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). |
Comments: | Subgenus Manis. Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:214) recognized three subspecies. Zhang and Shi (1991) analyzed mtDNA in two scale color morphs and concluded they could represent two taxa but Su-Bing et al (1994) concluded from protein polymorphisms that the two morphs were indistinguishable. |
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