Manis

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Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Mammalia 
Ordo : Pholidota 
Familia : Manidae 
Genus : Manis 
Linnaeus, 1758

   

Manis pentadactyla in horto zoologico Lipsiensi.

Manis est genus mammalium familiae Manidarum. Animalia singula squamas habent, quae maximam corporis partem tegunt. In tropicis Asiae Africaeque climatibus endemicae sunt. Formicidis isopterisque vesci solent.

Species

Species exstinctae:

• Manis hungarica Kormos, 1934
• Manis lydekkeri Dubois, 1908
• Manis palaeojavanica Dubois, 1907

Species exstantes:

• Subgenus Manis
  • Manis crassicaudata
  • Manis pentadactyla
• Subgenus Paramanis
  • Manis javanica
  • Manis culionensis

Bibliographia

• Gaudin, Timothy J., Robert J. Emry, et John R. Wible. 2009. The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis. Journal of Mammal Evolution 16: 235–305.
• ITIS. 2000. Manis. Catalogue of Life.
• Schlitter, D. A. 2005. Order Pholidota. In Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (ed. 3a), ed. D. E. Wilson et D. M. Reeder, 530–31. Baltimorae: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.