NORTH AMERICAN RECENT MAMMALS. 501 



Genus TAMANDUA Gray.'« 



1825. Tamandua Gray, Ann. Philos., n. s., vol. 10, p. 343. 

 November, 1825- Type, Myrmecophaga tamandua Cuvier = M. 

 tetradactyla Linn^us (see Gray, London Med. Repos.. vol. 15, 

 p. 305, April 1, 1821). 



*Taniandua tetradactyla chiriquensis (Allen). 



1904. Tamandua tetradactyla chiriquensis Allen, Bull. Amer. 



Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 20, p. 395. October 29, 1904. 

 Type Locality.— Boqueron, Chiriqui, Panama. 



*Tamandua tetradactyla mexicana (Saussure). 



1860. '^ Myrmecophaga tamandua (?), Desm. (Var. mexicana 



Sauss.)" Saussure, Revue et magasin de zoologie. ser. 2, 



vol. 12, p. 9. January, 1860. 

 1885. Myrmecophaga- quadridactyla True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 7 (1884), p. 588, 1885. (Part.) 

 1889. ? Myrmecophaga sellata Cope, Amor. Nat., vol. 23. p. 133. 



February, 1889. (Honduras.) 

 1904. Tamandua tetradactyla tenuirostris Allen, Bull. Amer. 



Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 20, p. 394. October 29, 1904. (Pasa 



Nueva, Vera Cruz, Mexico.) 

 1906. Tamandua tetradactyla mexicana Allen, Proc. Biol. Soc. 



Washington, vol. 19, p. 200. December 31, 1906. 

 Type Locality. — Tabasco, Mexico. 



Genus MYRMECOPHAGA Linnaeus. 



1758. Myrmecophaga Linn.^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 35. 



Type, by subsequent selection (Fleming, Philos. of Zool., vol. 



2, p. 194, May or June, 1822), Myrmecophaga juhata Linn^us = 



M. tridactyla Linn^us. 

 1900. Falcifer Rehn, Amer. Nat., vol. 34, p. 576. July, 1900. 



Type, Myrmecophaga juhata Linn.eus = M. tridactyla Lin- 



NJRUS. 



t* Myrmecophaga centralis Lyon. 



1885. Myrmecophaga juhata True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 7 



(1884), p. 588. "lS85. (Part.) 

 1906. Myrmecophaga centralis Lyon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 31, p. 570. November 14, 1906. 

 Type Locality. — Pacuare, Costa Rica. 



i« Revised by Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 20, pp. 385-398, Oct. 29, 1904. The generic 

 name Tamandua is not available either from Frisch 1775, Rafinesque 1815, or Gray 1S21. 



