anteater - Family order, Gallery, Similar animals

A mammal, native to Central and South America, which eats ants and termites; an edentate group, comprising four species: giant anteaters (inhabiting grassland), northern and southern tamanduas (grassland or forest), and silky anteaters (forest); numbats are also known as banded anteaters, and pangolins as scaly anteaters. (Family: Myrmecophagidae.)

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Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Superorder: Xenarthra Order: Pilosa Suborder: Vermilingua Illiger, 1811
Families
Cyclopedidae Myrmecophagidae

Anteaters are the four mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua commonly known for eating ants and termites.

Family order

ORDER PILOSA

Suborder Folivora (sloths) Suborder Vermilingua Family Cyclopedidae Genus Cyclopes Silky Anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) Family Myrmecophagidae Genus Myrmecophaga Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) Genus Tamandua Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) Southern Tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla)

Gallery

Ant eater Tamandua mexicana in Corcovado, NP Costa Rica

Similar animals

Pangolins are also called scaly anteaters.