What is this meme talking about?
The name of order Pholidota comes from Ancient Greek Φολιδωτός – "clad in scales" from φολίς pholís "scale".
The name "pangolin" comes from the Malay word pengguling meaning "one who rolls up" from guling or giling "to roll";
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin#Etymology
Constantine Rafinesque (1821) formed the Neo-Latin generic name Phataginus from the French term phatagin, adopted by Count Buffon (1763) after the reported local name phatagin or phatagen used in the East Indies.