Manis gigantea Illiger, 1815

Amori, Giovanni, Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Decher, Jan, Assou, Delagnon, Gippoliti, Spartaco & Luiselli, Luca, 2016, Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 201-244 : 221-222

Manis gigantea Illiger, 1815 °

HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — Recorded from Asante by Matschie (1893b).

REMARKS

A voucher from Togo but without precise locality of capture, is stored in the ZMB. This species is not present in the country according to Wilson & Reeder (2005) and IUCN (2014). Apparently, the only indication that the Giant pangolin might occur in Togo are older records mapped by Grubb et al. (1998) in the Volta Region of Ghana, near Fazao-Malfakassa National Park in Togo. There are also records form Batia near Pendjari National Park in Benin ( Sayer & Green 1984) so it might also still occur in northern Togo. The species belong to the subgenus Smutsia (Illiger, 1815) .

Phataginus tricuspis Rafinesque, 1821 ▶

HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — Cited by Matschie (1893b) for Togo.

VOUCHERS. — Four vouchers were collected at Misahohe and in unprecised localities in southern Togo (ZMB).

REMARK

Included in the genus Phataginus Rafinesque, 1821 following Wilson & Reeder (2005), and Gaudin et al. (2009).