CHAPTER XIV 
ORDER OF DIGGERS 
EFFODIENTIA 
HIS Order contains only a very small number of genera 
and species, all of which are confined to the Old World. 
They are the pangolins of Africa and the Far East, and the 
aard-varks of Africa. Until very recently these animals have 
been classed with the ant-eaters, sloths and armadillos, in 
the Order Edentata, or toothless mammals. But both in 
internal and external anatomy they differ widely from their 
very distant American relatives. 
The latest and most exact classification assigns them to a 
new and wholly independent Order, called Ef-fo-di-en’tia, 
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which means “‘Diggers.’”’ Its divisions are as below: 
OrpER EFFODIENTIA 
FAMILIES: EXAMPLES 
PANGOLINS........ Man'i-dae............. Manis, or Pengolin, of India. 
Manis pentadactyla. 
Aarp-VaRKS...... O-ryc-te-ro-pod'i-dae... . go ene: ot aout Ainige: 
rycteropus a’fer. 
THE PANGOLIN FAMILY 
Manidae 
One good look at a pangolin, or manis, is enough to arouse 
curiosity and provoke inquiry. Like the armadillo, it is one 
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