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 193456 10.5281/zenodo.7353134 504d78ed-19b5-4cf1-8784-7f2b23bc6155 1-56098-217-9 7353134 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.