Myrmecophagidae, Gray, 1825

Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, Check List 16 (1), pp. 127-136 : 129

Family Myrmecophagidae

Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758 , Giant Anteater

Records. Recorded by line transect (09°08.946′S, 068° 55.516′W) and hunting interviews.

Identification. The fur is dense and dark gray and black. The forelegs are white with black bands on the toes and with a white stripe oriented diagonally towards the body. The tail is large, with long, thickfur ( Gaudin et al. 2018).