Smutsia

Smutsia
	Mounted S. gigantea (Natural History Museum of Geneva)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Pholidota
Family:	Manidae
Genus:	Smutsia; Gray, 1865

Smutsia is a genus of African pangolins, formerly considered a subgenus of Manis.[1] Its members are the more terrestrial of the African pangolins.[2]

Species

Giant pangolin, S. gigantea

Ground pangolin, S. temminckii

References

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.
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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[Schlitter-1] 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.

[du_Toit2017-2] u 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.