Family CYCLOPEDIDAE

(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.

• 1 genus, 7 species, 7 taxa.

• Nospecies threatened; none Extinct since 1600.