Manis

Asiatic pangolin
Temporal range: 12.9–0 Ma Middle Miocene - present[1]
Living pangolins from genus Manis
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Synonyms[2][3]
synonyms of subfamily:
  • Mania
  • Manidae (Gray, 1821)
  • Manina (Gray, 1825)[4]
  • 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.[5][6]

  1. ^ Philippe Gaubert, Agostinho Antunes, Hao Meng, Lin Miao, Stéphane Peigné, Fabienne Justy, Flobert Njiokou, Sylvain Dufour, Emmanuel Danquah, Jayanthi Alahakoon, Erik Verheyen, William T Stanley, Stephen J O’Brien, Warren E Johnson, Shu-Jin Luo (2018) "The Complete Phylogeny of Pangolins: Scaling Up Resources for the Molecular Tracing of the Most Trafficked Mammals on Earth" Journal of Heredity, Volume 109, Issue 4, Pages 347–359
  2. ^ Palmer, Theodore Sherman (1904). Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals. U. S. Government Printing Office. p. 822.
  3. ^ "Taxonomic history of the genus Manis". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
  4. ^ J. E. Gray. (1825.) "An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe." Annals of Philosophy, new series 10:337-344
  5. ^ "Oldstyle id: d36852dde74a91d7c965591b175947ec". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
  6. ^ Schlitter, D.A. (2005). "Order Pholidota". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 530–531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.