Manis

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.

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Animalia — Chordata

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

   

Manis pentadactyla in horto zoologico Lipsiensi.

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.