Phataginus

{{Short description|Genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = African tree pangolin

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|13.3|0}} middle Miocene - PresentPhilippe Gaubert, Agostinho Antunes, Hao Meng, Lin Miao, Stéphane Peigné, Fabienne Justy, Flobert Njiokou, Sylvain Dufour, Emmanuel Danquah, Jayanthi Alahakoon, Erik Verheyen, William T Stanley, Stephen J O’Brien, Warren E Johnson, Shu-Jin Luo (2018) [https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/109/4/347/4622594 The Complete Phylogeny of Pangolins: Scaling Up Resources for the Molecular Tracing of the Most Trafficked Mammals on Earth]

| image = Phataginus.jpg

| image_caption = Pangolins from genus Phataginus

| taxon = Phataginus

| parent_authority = Gaubert, 2017

| authority = Rafinesque, 1821

| type_species = Manis tetradactyla

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1766

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = * Phataginus tetradactyla

• Phataginus tricuspis

| range_map = Manis ranges.png

| range_map_caption = {{leftlegend|#FF0090|Phataginus tetradactyla|outline=black}}

{{leftlegend|#9FDA31|Phataginus tricuspis|outline=black}}

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite web|url=https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/eutheria/leptictida/manidae.html|title = Manidae}}{{cite web|title=Manis pentadactyla |url=https://www.pangolinsg.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/06/Heath-1992-Manis-Pentadactyla.pdf|website=IUCN SSG Pangolin Specialist Group}}

| synonyms = {{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=synonyms of subfamily:

|Uromaninae {{small|(Pocock, 1924)}}

|Uromanini {{small|(Pocock, 1924)}}

}}

{{collapsible list |bullets=true |title=synonyms of genus:

|Pangolinus {{small|(Rafinesque, 1821)}}

|Paramanis {{small|(Pocock, 1924)}}

|Phatages {{small|(Sundevall, 1843)}}

|Phatagin {{small|(Gray, 1865)}}

|Phataginus {{small|(Rafinesque, 1815) [nomen nudum]}}

|Triglochinopholis {{small|(Fitzinger, 1872)}}

|Uromanis {{small|(Pocock, 1924)}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/25736 |title=Taxonomic Swap 25736 |last= |first= |date=2017-10-08 |website=iNaturalist |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2019-09-17}}

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African tree pangolin (Phataginus) is a genus of African pangolins from subfamily small African pangolins (Phatagininae), within family Manidae.{{MSW3 Pholidota |id=13900008 |page=531}} Its members are the more arboreal of the African pangolins.{{cite journal |last1=du Toit |first1=Z. |last2=du Plessis |first2=M. |last3=Dalton |first3=D. L. |last4=Jansen |first4=R. |last5=Paul Grobler |first5=J. |last6=Kotzé |first6=A. |title=Mitochondrial genomes of African pangolins and insights into evolutionary patterns and phylogeny of the family Manidae |journal=BMC Genomics |volume=18 |issue=1 |year=2017 |page=746 |doi=10.1186/s12864-017-4140-5 |pmid=28934931 |pmc=5609056 |doi-access=free}}

From 2010 to 2019, at least 895,000 pangolins from the genus Phataginus were illegally trafficked. The animal is hunted and poached for its scales and meat, and is often used in making traditional medicine in places such as China and Vietnam. Attempts to protect these mammals from trafficking and extinction are ongoing; unfortunately their slow reproduction rate stymies population recovery. Currently the tree pangolin is listed as vulnerable. All pangolin species have been listed as vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered. {{cite journal |author=Gaubert, P. |title= Development and characterization of 20 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the white-bellied pangolin Phataginus tricuspis (Mammalia, Pholidota) |journal= Molecular Biology Reports |volume=47 |issue=6 |pages= 4827–4833 |year=2020 |doi= 10.1007/s11033-020-05511-6|pmid= 32419053 |pmc=7230135 }}