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Northern Tamandua
Tamandua mexicana (de Saussure, 1860)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Pilosa »  family Myrmecophagidae - anteaters »  genus Tamandua

Scientific synonyms

Myrmecophaga tamandua var. mexicana Saussure, 1860
Tamandua tetradactyla mexicana Allen, 1906
Myrmecophaga tamandua mexicana

Other names

= Mexican Anteater
= Vested Anteater

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Included taxa

Number of records: 4

subspecies Tamandua mexicana instabilis J. A. Allen, 1904
subspecies Tamandua mexicana mexicana (Saussure, 1860)
subspecies Tamandua mexicana opistholeuca Gray, 1873

Tamandua mexicana opistholeuca

subspecies Tamandua mexicana punensis J. A. Allen, 1916

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [21349]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Tamandua mexicana (Saussure, 1860)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1000443]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Tamandua mexicana (de Saussure, 1860)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Tamandua mexicana Saussure, 1860]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Tamandua mexicana (Saussure, 1860)]

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