Manis Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:36.

TYPE SPECIES: Manis pentadactyla Linnaeus, 1758 .

SYNONYMS: Paramanis, Phataginus, Smutsia, Uromanis (see Corbet and Hill, 1980:127).

COMMENTS: Morphological evidence suggests a subdivision of the genus; see Patterson (1978).