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Anteater is a common name for the four extant mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue") commonly known for eating ants and termites. The individual species have other names in English and other languages. Together with the sloths, they are within the order Pilosa. The name "anteater" is also colloquially applied to the unrelated aardvark, numbat, echidnas, pangolins and some members of the Oecobiidae. Extant species are the giant anteater ''Myrmecophaga tridactyla'', about long including the tail; the silky anteater ''Cyclopes didactylus'', about long; the southern tamandua or collared anteater ''Tamandua tetradactyla'', about long; and the northern tamandua ''Tamandua mexicana'' of similar dimensions. ==Classification== The anteaters are more closely related to the sloths than they are to any other group of mammals. Their next closest relations are armadillos. There are four extant species in three genera: * Giant anteater (''Myrmecophaga tridactyla'') * Silky anteater (''Cyclopes didactylus'') * Northern (''Tamandua mexicana'') and southern tamandua (''Tamandua tetradactyla'') There are several extinct genera: Order Pilosa *Suborder Folivora (sloths) *Suborder Vermilingua (anteaters) * *Family Cyclopedidae * * *Genus ''Cyclopes'' * * * *Silky anteater (''C. didactylus'') * * *Genus †''Palaeomyrmidon'' (Rovereto 1914) * *Family Myrmecophagidae * * *Genus ''Myrmecophaga'' * * * *Giant anteater (''M. tridactyla'') * * *Genus †''Neotamandua'' (Rovereto 1914) * * *Genus ''Tamandua'' * * * *Northern tamandua (''T. mexicana'') * * * *Southern tamandua (''T. tetradactyla'') * * *Genus †''Protamandua'' (Ameghino 1904) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anteater」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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