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Manis pentadactyla (29054818144)🐾

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SpeciesPholidotaManidae
Mammals

🐾Chinese pangolin

Manis pentadactyla Linnaeus, 1758

A kínai tobzoska (Manis pentadactyla) az emlősök (Mammalia) osztályának tobzoskák (Pholidota) rendjébe, ezen belül a tobzoskafélék (Manidae) családjába tartozó faj. Nemének a típusfaja.

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Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
3.64 kg
Body length
0.38 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Chinese pangolin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
3.64 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2.35 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
0.38 m
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Brain mass
18 g
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Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Generation length
5 years
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Age at maturity
2.1 years
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Gestation
108 daysestimated
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Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Volume l
3.6 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Chinese pangolin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPholidota
  5. ›familyManidae
  6. ›genusManis
  7. ›speciesManis pentadactyla
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderPholidota
  3. familyManidae
  4. genusManis
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderPholidota
  12. familyManidae
  13. genusManis
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What it eats
insects and other invertebrates100%
In other languages
穿山甲 (zh), Chinesisches Schuppentier (de), Manis pentadactyla (es), Pangolin à courte queue (fr), Pangolim-chinês (pt), Šupinavec čínsky (sk) … and 22 more languages
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