108 CLASSIFICATION OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



SUB-CLASS III. MONODELPHIA. 



ORDER I. EDENTATA (BRUTA). 

 Sub-ord. 1. Tardigrada. 



Fam. Bradypodidae (Sloths). Bradypus, Cholcepus. 

 Sub-ord. 2. *Gravigrada. 



Fam. *Megatheridae. Megatherium, Mylodon, Mega- 



lonyx. 

 Sub-ord. 3. Loricata. 



Fam. a. Dasypodidae (Armadillos). Dasypus, Chlamy- 



phorus. 



Fam. &. *Glyptodontidae. Glyptodon. 

 Sub-ord. 4. Vermilinguia. 



Fam. a. Myrmecophagidae. Myrmecopliaga (Ant-eater), 



Cydoihurus. *., / _/' 



Fam. 5. Manidae. Manis (Pangolin). ^-^^ 7< 

 Fam. c. Orycteropidae. Orycteropus (Aardvark). J . 



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Fig. 90. Edentata. The three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes conunis), one-third of the 

 natural size. (After Murie.) 



(Rapp, Anatomische Untersuclmnyen uberdie Edentaten, Tubingen, 1852 ; 

 Turner, Classification of the Edentata, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1851 ; Jager, An- 



