Giant pangolin
| Giant pangolin Temporal range: early Pliocene to present
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| Mounted specimen in the Natural History Museum, London | |
| Illustration by Joseph Wolf | |
CITES Appendix I
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pholidota |
| Family: | Manidae |
| Genus: | Smutsia |
| Species: | S. gigantea
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| Binomial name | |
| Smutsia gigantea Illiger, 1815
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The giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) is a species of pangolin from genus Smutsia of subfamily Smutsiinae within the family Manidae. It is the largest living species of pangolins. Members of the species inhabit Africa with a range stretching along the equator from West Africa to Uganda. It subsists almost entirely on ants and termites.