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Definition of Genus manis

1. Noun. Type genus of the Manidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Manis

Literary usage of Genus manis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844 by Andreas Johann Wagner, Franz Hermann Troschel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1847)
"Sundevall has given an excellent Monograph on the genus Manis (KV Acad. Handl. 1842, p. 245), and has distinguished the species with great profundity. ..."

2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1801)
"In other respects the genus manis offers no particular subject of remark. The genus dasypus (armadillo) offers also nothing to detain-us, except to observe ..."

3. The British Critic (1793)
"When I faw this animal in 1^90 it was between four and five years old, fo probably had attained its full growth. In the genus MANIS, we find introduced, ..."

4. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1831)
"... Jubata—Zm : Genus MANIS.—(Lin:) Teeth, none. 572. The scales of the short-tailed Manis or Pangolin. Manis pentadactyla—Lin: (Manis Macroura—Desm ..."

5. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"genus manis. Small animals from two to nearly five feet in length ; elongated cylindrical bodies with long tails, covered from snout to tip of tail with ..."

6. A Text-book of Zoogeography by Frank Evers Beddard (1895)
"... or scaly anteaters, with really only one genus Manis, though more have been allowed by some system- atists. ..."

7. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"... by their covering of overlapping horny scales, are now confined to the Oriental and Ethiopian regions, to which the one living genus Manis is common; ..."

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