Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Order Tubulidentata Huxley, 1872 - aardvark Family Orycteropodidae Gray, 1821 - aardvark Genus Orycteropus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796 - aardvark Orycteropus afer (Pallas, 1766) - aardvark