Manis

Asiatic pangolin (Manis) is a genus of South Asian and East Asian pangolins from subfamily Asiatic pangolins (Maninae), within family Manidae.[5][6]

Asiatic pangolin Temporal range: 12.9–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Middle Miocene - Present[1]
Living pangolins from genus Manis
Scientific classification
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 pentadactyla †Manis hungarica †Manis lydekkeri Subgenus: Paramanis Manis culionensis Manis javanica †Manis paleojavanica
Manis crassicaudata   Manis culionensis   Manis javanica   Manis pentadactyla
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)

Etymology

Carl Linnaeus (1758) invented the Neo-Latin generic name Manis apparently as a feminine singular form of the Latin masculine plural Manes, the Ancient Roman name for a type of spirit, after the animal's strange appearance.[7]

Taxonomy

• Subfamily: Maninae (Asiatic pangolins)
  • Genus: Manis (Asiatic pangolins)
    • Manis crassicaudata (Indian pangolin)
    • Manis pentadactyla (Chinese pangolin)
    • †Manis hungarica
    • †Manis lydekkeri
    • Subgenus: Paramanis
      • Manis culionensis (Philippine pangolin)
      • Manis javanica (Sunda pangolin)
      • †Manis paleojavanica

Phylogeny

Phylogenetic position of genus Manis within family Manidae.[8][9][1]

Pholidotamorpha

†Palaeanodonta    Pholidota    †Euromanis    ?  †pholidota sp. (BC 16’08)       †Eurotamanduidae    Eupholidota    †Eomanoidea    Manoidea    †Patriomanidae      ?  †Necromanis    Manidae   Smutsiinae    Phatagininae     Smutsiinae (sensu stricto)    sensu lato   ?  †manidae sp. (DPC 3972 & DPC 4364)    Maninae   Manis    Manis pentadactyla    ?  †Manis hungarica         Manis crassicaudata    ?  †Manis lydekkeri      (Paramanis)    Manis culionensis     Manis javanica     †Manis paleojavanica                      sensu stricto

(Pholidota sensu lato)

References

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
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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.
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8. Gaudin, Timothy (2009). "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media. 16 (4): 235–305. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. S2CID 1773698.
9. 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. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694319. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86059673.