White-bellied pangolin

White-bellied pangolin
Temporal range: late Miocene - present
In Nyamebe Bepo Forest Reserve, Ashanti Region, Ghana
CITES Appendix I 
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pholidota
Family: Manidae
Genus: Phataginus
Species:
P. tricuspis
Binomial name
Phataginus tricuspis
(Rafinesque, 1821)
  Distribution of the white-bellied pangolin

The white-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) is one of eight extant species of pangolins ("scaly anteaters"), and is native to equatorial Africa. Also known as the tree pangolin or three-cusped pangolin, it is the most common of the African forest pangolins.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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