Manis crassicaudata Gray, 1827 . In Griffith's Cuvier Anim. Kingd., 5:282.

TYPE LOCALITY: India .

DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan, east to W. Bengal (India) and Yunnan (China)(SW), south to Sri Lanka.

COMMENT: Formerly erroneously called pentadactyla; see Emry, 1970, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 142:460; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301408001001001001.