World Species : Cyclopes didactylus (Silky Anteater)

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Cyclopes didactylus (Silky Anteater)

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Synonyms: Cyclopes didactylus didactylus; Cyclopes didactylus melini; Myrmecophaga didactyla; Myrmecophaga monodactyla; Myrmecophaga unicolor

Wikipedia Abstract

The silky anteater, or pygmy anteater, (Cyclopes didactylus) is a species of anteaters from Central and South America, the only living species in the genus Cyclopes and the family Cyclopedidae. A single extinct cyclopedid genus, Palaeomyrmidon, known from the Miocene of Argentina, may be ancestral to the living species.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 54.41

EDGE Score: 4.01

View EDGE Record: Cyclopes didactylus

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	266 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Arboreal ^[2]	100 %

Gestation ^[1]	4 months 15 days
Litter Size ^[1]	1
Maximum Longevity ^[4]	2 years
Nocturnal ^[3]	Yes
Snout to Vent Length ^[4]	7 inches (19 cm)
Weaning ^[1]	5 months 2 days

Habitat Substrate ^[3]	Arboreal

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Atlantic Forest	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	No
Caribbean Islands	Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S.	No
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru	No

Consumers

Parasitized by
Ctenocephalides felis felis	^[5]
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Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
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♦ ³Tamandua mexicana (Pilosa: Myrmecophagidae), DAYA NAVARRETE AND JORGE ORTEGA, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(874):56–63 (2011)
♦ ⁴Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ ⁵International Flea Database
♦ ⁶Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0