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Taxon: Family Myrmecophagidae Gray, 1825 - anteaters (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (Gray, 1825) Bonaparte, 1838
Unavailable original name Fischer [von Waldheim], G. 1814. Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata. Nicolai Sergeidis Vsevolozsky, Mosquae: IX, 109-110.
Original name Gray, 1825:343.
Subsequent rank Bonaparte, 1838:111.

Types

TypeMyrmecophaga (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms

Synonymous nameAdiastaltidae (Family) Ameghino, 1894 Ref: PBDB: 22 Feb 2016.
Synonymous nameAnathitidae (Family) Ameghino, 1894 Ref: PBDB: 22 Feb 2016.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namemiereneters Ref: 1992

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nameanteaters
American anteaters Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
vermilinguas Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
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