#edentate primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central and South America
supertype: #placental_mammal__placentalmammal__placental__eutherian__eutherian_mammal__eutherianmammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
member of: #order_Edentata
subtype: #armadillo burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
subtype: #peba__nine-banded_armadillo__Texas_armadillo__Dasypus_novemcinctus having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay
subtype: #apar__three-banded_armadillo__Tolypeutes_tricinctus South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates
subtype: #tatouay__cabassous__cabassou__Cabassous_unicinctus naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America
subtype: #peludo__poyou__Euphractus_sexcinctus Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts
subtype: #giant_armadillo__giantarmadillo__tatou__tatu__Priodontes_giganteus about three feet long exclusive of tail
subtype: #pichiciago__pichiciego__fairy_armadillo__fairyarmadillo__chlamyphore__Chlamyphorus_truncatus very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck
subtype: #greater_pichiciego__greaterpichiciego__Burmeisteria_retusa of southern South America
subtype: #tree_sloth__sloth any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
subtype: #three-toed_sloth__ai__Bradypus_tridactylus a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot
subtype: #Choloepus_didactylus__two-toed_sloth__unau relatively small fast-moving sloth
subtype: #two-toed_sloth__unau__Choloepus_hoffmanni relatively small fast-moving sloth
subtype: #megatherian_mammal__megatherianmammal__megatherian__megatheriid a large extinct ground sloth
subtype: #ground_sloth__megathere gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
subtype: #mylodontid a variety of extinct edentate
subtype: #mapinguari supposed human-sized sloth-like creature reported sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest
subtype: #mylodon large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America
subtype: #New_World_anteater__anteater any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
subtype: #ant_bear__antbear__giantanteater__great_anteater__greatanteater__tamanoir__Myrmecophaga_jubata large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America
subtype: #silky_anteater__silkyanteater__two-toed_anteater__Cyclopes_didactylus squirrel-sized South American toothless anteater with long silky golden fur
subtype: #tamandua__tamandu__lesser_anteater__Tamandua_tetradactyla small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South and Central America
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