Manis

Asiatic pangolin; Temporal range: Middle Miocene - present
	Living pangolins from genus Manis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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 sp. (Scale_H4 & Scale_H8); †Manis hungarica; †Manis lydekkeri; Subgenus: Paramanis Manis culionensis; Manis javanica; †Manis palaeojavanica; ;
	Manis crassicaudata Manis culionensis Manis javanica Manis pentadactyla
Synonyms
	synonyms of subfamily: Mania ; Manidae (Gray, 1821) ; Manina (Gray, 1825) ; 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.

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