Orycteropus

Orycteropus
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Recent
Orycteropus aferAardvark
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Tubulidentata
Family: Orycteropodidae
Genus: Orycteropus
É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796[1]
Type species
Myrmecophaga afra
Pallas, 1766
Species

4, see text

Orycteropus is a genus of mammals in the family Orycteropodidae within Tubulidentata.[2] The genus is known from Late Miocene to recent of Africa.[3]

The only living species within Tubulidentata is the aardvark (Orycteropus afer).

  1. ^ Woodman, Neal (2021). "Whence Orycteropus? The correct authorship and date for the generic name of the aardvark (Mammalia, Tubulidentata, Orycteropodidae)". Bionomina. 25 (1): 21–34. doi:10.11646/bionomina.25.1.2. S2CID 245309737.
  2. ^ Schlitter, D.A. (2005). "Order Tubulidentata". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lehmann2009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).