CYCLOPEDIDAE, Pocock, 1924

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2018, Cyclopedidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8 Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 99-102 : 99

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6627824
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6625716
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treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	CYCLOPEDIDAE
status

Treatment

Family CYCLOPEDIDAE View in CoL

(SILKY ANTEATERS)

• Smallest extant anteaters with silvery gray to golden brown to reddish bodies and limbs and darker dorsal, sternal, or ventral streaks and lighter extremities in some species; myrmecophagous; and arboreal.

• 20-40 cm. • Nearctic (marginally) and Neotropical Regions. Rainforest to mangrove forests. View Figure

• 1 genus, 7 species, 7 taxa.

• Nospecies threatened; none Extinct since 1600.