Biology:Manis

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Short description: Genus of mammals

Asiatic pangolin
Temporal range: 12.9–0 Ma
Middle Miocene - present[1]
Manis temminckii (Blitz).jpg
Living pangolins from genus Manis
Scientific classification e
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 ranges.png
Synonyms[2][3]

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

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

Phylogeny

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

 Pholidotamorpha 

Palaeanodonta Metacheiromys DB152-2.jpg

 Pholidota 

Euromanis

 ? 

†Pholidota sp. (BC 16’08)

Eurotamanduidae

 Eupholidota 

Eomanoidea

 Manoidea 

Patriomanidae

 ? 

Necromanis

 Manidae 
 Smutsiinae 

Phatagininae Anatomische Untersuchungen über die Edentaten (1852) Phataginus tricuspis.png

Smutsiinae (sensu stricto) Cambridge Natural History Mammalia Fig 109.jpg

 sensu lato 
 ? 

†Manidae sp. (DPC 3972 & DPC 4364)

 Maninae 
 Manis 

Manis pentadactyla Pangolin Hardwicke (white background).jpg

 ? 

Manis hungarica

Manis crassicaudata

 ? 

Manis lydekkeri

 ? 

Manis sp. (Scale_H4 & Scale_H8)

 (Paramanis

Manis culionensis

Manis javanica Anatomische Untersuchungen über die Edentaten (1852) Manis javanica.jpg

 ? 

Manis palaeojavanica

 sensu stricto 
 (Pholidota sensu lato) 

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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) (in en). Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals. U. S. Government Printing Office. p. 822. https://archive.org/details/indexgenerummam00palmgoog. 
  3. "Taxonomic history of the genus Manis". https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/eutheria/leptictida/history_Manis.html. 
  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". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/d36852dde74a91d7c965591b175947ec. 
  6. Template:MSW3 Pholidota
  7. "ITIS Report Manis Linnaeus, 1758". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=584905#null. 
  8. Huarong Zhang, Mark P. Miller, Feng Yang, Hon Ki Chan, Philippe Gaubert, Gary Ades, Gunter A. Fischer (2015.) "Molecular tracing of confiscated pangolin scales for conservation and illegal trade monitoring in Southeast Asia", Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 4, Pages 414-422
  9. Jingyang Hu, Christian Roos, Xue Lv, Weimin Kuang, Li Yu (2020.) "Molecular Genetics Supports a Potential Fifth Asian Pangolin Species (Mammalia, Pholidota, Manis)" Zoological Science, 37(6):538-543
  10. Gaudin, Timothy (2009). "The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis". Journal of Mammalian Evolution (Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Science+Business Media) 16 (4): 235–305. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9. http://web2.utc.edu/~gvv824/Gaudin%20et%20al%202009.pdf. 
  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. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694319. ISSN 0272-4634. 

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