Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:35.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Pernambuco .

DISTRIBUTION: S. Belize and Guatemala to South America; west of Andes to N.W. Ecuador; east of Andes, Colombia and Venezuela, south to the Gran Chaco (Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina) on the west and Uruguay on the east. Type locality restricted by Thomas, 1911, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911: 132.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301407001002001001.