Phataginus

African tree pangolin
Temporal range: 13.3–0 Ma middle Miocene - Present[1]
Pangolins from genus Phataginus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pholidota
Family: Manidae
Subfamily: Phatagininae
Gaubert, 2017
Genus: Phataginus
Rafinesque, 1821
Type species
Manis tetradactyla
Linnaeus, 1766
Species
  Phataginus tetradactyla
  Phataginus tricuspis
Synonyms[2][3]
synonyms of subfamily:
  • Uromaninae (Pocock, 1924)
  • Uromanini (Pocock, 1924)
synonyms of genus:
  • Pangolinus (Rafinesque, 1821)
  • Paramanis (Pocock, 1924)
  • Phatages (Sundevall, 1843)
  • Phatagin (Gray, 1865)
  • Phataginus (Rafinesque, 1815) [nomen nudum]
  • Triglochinopholis (Fitzinger, 1872)
  • Uromanis (Pocock, 1924)[4]

African tree pangolin (Phataginus) is a genus of African pangolins from subfamily small African pangolins (Phatagininae), within family Manidae.[5] Its members are the more arboreal of the African pangolins.[6]

The number of illegally trafficked pangolins from genus Phataginus was at least 895,000 from the years 2010 to 2019. The animal is hunted and poached for its scales and meat and is often used for the making of traditional medicine in places such as China and Vietnam. Attempts are still being made to help protect these mammals from trafficking and extinction, unfortunately their slow reproduction rate isn't much of assistance to this effort. Currently the tree pangolin is listed as vulnerable. All of the pangolins species have been listed as vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered.[7]

  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
  2. ^ "Manidae".
  3. ^ "Manis pentadactyla" (PDF). IUCN SSG Pangolin Specialist Group.
  4. ^ "Taxonomic Swap 25736". iNaturalist. 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  5. ^ 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. p. 531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  6. ^ du Toit, Z.; du Plessis, M.; Dalton, D. L.; Jansen, R.; Paul Grobler, J.; Kotzé, A. (2017). "Mitochondrial genomes of African pangolins and insights into evolutionary patterns and phylogeny of the family Manidae". BMC Genomics. 18 (1): 746. doi:10.1186/s12864-017-4140-5. PMC 5609056. PMID 28934931.
  7. ^ Gaubert, P. (2020). "Development and characterization of 20 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the white-bellied pangolin Phataginus tricuspis (Mammalia, Pholidota). Molecular Biology Reports., 47(6), 4827–4833. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05511-6