Manis mysteria, the cryptic pangolin, is a pangolin in the family Manidae that is native to an unknown location within Asia. It is only known from partial specimens and the species has never been obse
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Manis mysteria
…identified a genotype lineage which could not be identified as belonging to any of the Asian pangolin species known at the time. In 2023, Gu Tong-Tong (Yunnan University School of Life Science) described the scales and assigned them to a new species named Manis mysteria. Because Manis mysteria is only known from confiscated…