Giant pangolin
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| phylum | Chordata | The giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) is a pangolin species. Members of the species inhabit Africa with a range stretching along the equator from West Africa to Uganda. The giant pangolin is the largest species of pangolins, or "scaly anteaters" – the large, scaled mammals belonging to the family Manidae. It subsists almost entirely on ants and termites. The species was first described by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1815.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Pholidota | |
| family | Manidae | |
| genus | Smutsia | |
| Species | S. gigantea |
