Phataginus

Phataginus is a genus of African pangolins.[3] It was once referred to as Uromanis.[4] Its members are the more arboreal of the African pangolins.[5]

Phataginus
P. tricuspis in DR Congo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pholidota
Family: Manidae
Genus: Phataginus
Rafinesque, 1821
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Triglochinopolis Fitzinger, 1872
  • Uromanis Pocock, 1924

Species

References

  1. https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/eutheria/leptictida/manidae.html
  2. https://www.pangolinsg.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/06/Heath-1992-Manis-Pentadactyla.pdf
  3. 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. p. 531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  4. "Taxonomic Swap 25736". iNaturalist. 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  5. du Toit, Z.; du Plessis, M.; Dalton, D.L.; Jansen, R.; Paul Grobler, J.; Kotzé, A. (2017). "Mitochondrial genomes of African pangolins and insights into evolutionary patterns and phylogeny of the family Manidae". BMC Genomics. 18 (1). doi:10.1186/s12864-017-4140-5.
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