Manis

Asiatic pangolin
Temporal range: Middle Miocene - present
Living pangolins from genus Manis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pholidota
Family: Manidae
Subfamily: Maninae
Gray, 1821
Genus: Manis
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Manis pentadactyla
Linnaeus, 1758
Species
  Manis crassicaudata
  Manis culionensis
  Manis javanica
  Manis pentadactyla
Synonyms
synonyms of subfamily:
  • Mania
  • Manidae (Gray, 1821)
  • Manina (Gray, 1825)
  • Pholidotina (Gray, 1873)
synonyms of genus:
  • Pangolin (Gray, 1873)
  • Pangolinus (Rafinesque, 1821)
  • Paramanis (Pocock, 1924)
  • Phatages (Sundevall, 1843)
  • Phatagenus (Sundevall, 1843)
  • Pholidotus (Brisson, 1762)
  • Quaggelo (Frisch, 1775)

Manis ("spirit") is a genus of South Asian and East Asian pangolins, the Asiatic pangolins, from subfamily Maninae, within family Manidae.

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