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Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus 1758
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Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus 1758
Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 35.
Type Locality: "America meridionali;" restricted to Brazil, Pernambuco, Pernambuco, by Thomas (1911 a).
Vernacular Names: Giant Anteater.
Synonyms: Myrmecophaga iubata Weid 1826.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Myrmecophaga tridactyla subsp. tridactyla Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Myrmecophaga tridactyla subsp. artata Osgood 1912
Subspecies Myrmecophaga tridactyla subsp. centralis Lyon 1906
Distribution: Belize and Guatemala through South America to Uruguay and the Gran Chaco of Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable.
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Pilosa, pp. 100-103 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 102, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Myrmecophagidae
- Genus
- Myrmecophaga
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pilosa
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- tridactyla
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
- Osgood, W. H. 1912. Mammals from western Venezuela and eastern Colombia. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 10: 32 - 67.