Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Pilosa - (Family) Myrmecophagidae

Original position

Bruta (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825

Original entries

Myrmecophaga didactyla Linnaeus, 1758
Myrmecophaga tetradactyla Linnaeus, 1758
Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825

Ref: A.L. Gardner, 2005: 102.

Alternative positions

Bruta (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 51.

Historical positions

Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: A.L. Gardner, 2005: 102.
Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 319.
Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 92.
Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: A.L. Gardner, 1993: 68.
Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 23.
Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1035.
Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Myrmecophagidae (Family) Gray, 1825	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 580.
Effodientia (Order)	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 454. [rough position]
Bruta (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 26, 51.
Bruta (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 18, 35. [new position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	1s;3ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1s;3ss]
2005	A.L. Gardner	[1s;3ss]
1993	A.L. Gardner	[1s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[1s]
1982	A.F. DeBlase	1s
1758	C. Linnaeus	[3s]