Manis ("spirit") is a genus of South Asian and East Asian pangolins, the Asiatic pangolins, from subfamily Maninae, within family Manidae.

[5][6] Carl Linnaeus (1758) invented the Neo-Latin generic name Manis apparently as a feminine singular form of the Latin masculine plural Manes, the Ancient Roman name for a type of spirit, after the animal's strange appearance.

[7] Phylogenetic position of genus Manis within family Manidae.

(BC 16’08) †Eurotamanduidae †Eomanoidea †Patriomanidae †Necromanis Phatagininae Smutsiinae (sensu stricto) †Manidae sp.

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