Order Tubulidentata
Author
Duane A. Schutter
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
375
375
book chapter
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Orycteropus
G. Cuvier, 1798
.
Tabi. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim., 1798:144
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Myrmecophaga capensis
Gmelin, 1788
(=
Myrmecophaga afra
Pallas, 1766
).
COMMENTS:
Sherborn (1902:701)
gave
Orycteropus
"Geoffroy, Decad. Phil, et Litt. XXVIII. 1795", but it is untracable.
Meester et al. (1986: 182)
reviewed and assigned the correct generic name.