Manis

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Asiatic pangolin
Temporal range: 12.9–0  Ma
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Middle Miocene - present [1]
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Living pangolins from genus Manis
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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
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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]

Contents

Taxonomy

Phylogeny

Phylogenetic position of genus Manis within family Manidae. [10] [11] [1]

Pholidotamorpha
(Pholidotasensu lato)

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  7. Zijlstra JS (25 April 2025). "Manis aurita Hodgson 1837 as a valid species of pangolin: a comment to Wangmo et al. (2025)". Mammalian Biology. doi:10.1007/s42991-025-00495-x.
  8. Wangmo, L. K., Ghosh, A., Dolker, S., Joshi, B. D., Sharma, L. K., & Thakur, M. (2025). Indo-Burmese pangolin (Manis indoburmanica): a novel phylogenetic species of pangolin evolved in Asia. Mammalian Biology, 1-8.
  9. https://www.sci.news/biology/manis-mysteria-12316.html
  10. Gaudin, Timothy (2009). "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 16 (4). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media: 235–305. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. S2CID   1773698. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  11. Kondrashov, Peter; Agadjanian, Alexandre K. (2012). "A nearly complete skeleton of Ernanodon (Mammalia, Palaeanodonta) from Mongolia: morphofunctional analysis". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (5): 983–1001. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..983K. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694319. ISSN   0272-4634. S2CID   86059673.