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Tubulidentata

aardvarks, ant bears

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Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) in Serengeti NP, Tanzaniaaardvark
Classification after McKenna & Bell 1997.
Containing group: Eutheria

Other Names for Tubulidentata

References

Arnason, U., A. Gullberg, and A. Janke. 1999. The mitochondrial DNA molecule of the aardvark, Orycteropus afer, and the position of the Tubulidentata in the eutherian tree. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 266: 339-345.

Benirsch, K., D. H. Wurster, R. J. Low, N. B. Atkin. 1970. Chromosome complement of aardvark, Orycteropus afer. Chromosoma 31:68-&.

DeJong, W. W., A. Zweers, and M. Goodman. 1981. Relationship of aardvark to elephants, hyraxes and sea cows from alpha-crystallin sequences. Nature 292:538-540.

Madsen, O., P. M. T. Deen, G. Pesole, C. Saccone, and W. W. deJong. 1997. Molecular evolution of mammalian aquaporin-2: Further evidence that elephant shrew and aardvark join the paenungulate clade. Molecular Biology and Evolution 14:363-371.

McKenna, M. C. and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York.

Melton, D. A. 1976. The biology of the aardvark (Tubulidentata, Orycteropodidae). Mammal Review 6:75-88.

Nowak, R. M. 1999. Order Tubulidentata. Pages 1048-1049 in: Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth Edition. Volume II. (R. M. Nowak). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Pathak, S., L. Shirley, M. L. Johnson. 1980. The chromosome-banding patterns of the aardvark Orycteropus afer (Tubulidentata, Orycteropidae). Experientia 36:547-548.

Patterson, B. 1978. Pholidota and Tubulidentata. Pages 268-278 in Evolution of African Mammals. V. J. Maglio and H. B. S. Cooke, eds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pickford, M. 1996. Tubulidentata (Mammalia) from the middle and upper Miocene of southern Namibia. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Serie II Fascicule A-Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 322:805-810.

Shoshani, J., C. A. Goldman, and J. G. M. Thewissen. 1988. Orycteropus afer. American Society of Mammalogists. Mammalian Species Account 300:1-8.

Thewissen, J. G. M. 1985. Cephalic evidence for the affinities of Tubulidentata. Mammalia 49:257-284.

Thewissen, J. G. M. and D. M. Badoux. 1986. The descriptive and functional myology of the fore-limb of the aardvark (Orycteropus afer, Pallas 1766). Anatomischer Anzeiger 162:109-123.

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Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) in Serengeti NP, Tanzania
Scientific Name Orycteropus afer
Location Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Comments Aardvarks are shy, solitary and completely nocturnal. They sleep in burrows by day and emerge to dig for termites after dark. This one was found by spotlighting on open grasslands.
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Identified By David Bygott
Behavior Foraging
Life Cycle Stage Adult
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Copyright © 2005
aardvark
Scientific Name Orycteropus afer
Location captive specimen at Frankfurt Zoo (Germany)
Comments aardvark
Creator Lloyd Glenn Ingles
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Collection CalPhotos
Copyright © 2001 California Academy of Sciences
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