Orycteropus

Orycteropus
Orycteropus
Orycteropus afer - Aardvark
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Afrotheria
Order: Tubulidentata
Family: Orycteropodidae
Genus: Orycteropus
G. Cuvier, 1798

Orycteropus is a genus of mammals in the family Orycteropodidae within Tubulidentata.[1]

The only living species of all Tubulidentata is the Aardvark (Orycteropus afer).

Species

  • Orycteropus afer - Aardvark
  • † Orycteropus abundulafus[2]
  • † Orycteropus djourabensis Lehmann et al., 2004

References

  1. ^ Schlitter, Duane A. (16 November 2005). "Order Tubulidentata (p. 86)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=11300003. 
  2. ^ "A new species of Orycteropodidae (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) in the Mio-Pliocene of northern Chad ". doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00143.x

Further reading

  • "A sub-complete fossil aardvark (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from the Upper Miocene of Chad". doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2005.12.016
  • MacInnes D. G. (1956). Fossil Tubulidentata from East Africa. British Museum (Natural History), London. Fossil mammals of Africa series; no. 10. 46 pp.




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