Manis (Manis) pentadactyla Linnaeus 1758

Manis (Manis) pentadactyla Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 36.

Type Locality: Taiwan.

Vernacular Names: Chinese Pangolin.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Manis (Manis) pentadactyla subsp. pentadactyla Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Manis (Manis) pentadactyla subsp. auritus Hodgson 1836

Subspecies Manis (Manis) pentadactyla subsp. pusilla J. Allen 1906

Distribution: E Nepal; NE India; E Bangladesh; Burma; Thailand; N Cambodia; N Laos; N Vietnam; C and S China, including Hainan Isl; Taiwan.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Subgenus Manis . Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:214) recognized three subspecies. Zhang and Shi (1991) analyzed mtDNA in two scale color morphs and concluded they could represent two taxa but Su-Bing et al (1994) concluded from protein polymorphisms that the two morphs were indistinguishable.