remain an important subspecies. Order Hyracoidea also consists of hoofed mammals: seven species of hyrax , a primarily herbivorous creature native to Africa and the far southwestern extremities of Asia. Hyraxes are sometimes lumped in with pikas under the term rock rabbit, but, in fact, pikas are lagomorphs, a group we discuss later. To further the confusion, hyraxes are probably the animal called a coney in the Bible, even though there is an animal called a cony (no "e") that is actually a lagomorph. This is just one of many examples of confusion resulting from the complexities of the animal world and humans' attempts to name and classify its members. Tubulidentates For most orders, the lowercase adjectival name (e.g., primates, carnivores, insectivores, and so on) is commonly used. On the other hand, the names hyracoidean and tubulidentate are seldom used for more obscure groups, such as Hyracoidea and Tubulidentata. If any order of mammal is obscure, it is Tubulidentata, which emerged some 60 million years ago and which consists of a single species: the African ant bear ( Orycteropus afer ). The latter creature is better known by the name aardvark, which in the Afrikaans language means "earth pig." Aardvarks at first glance might seem to belong with anteaters, sloths, and armadillos in the order Edentata, and that is what taxonomists thought for a long time. The latter half of the name tubulidentate, however, suggests the area of differentiation: the teeth. Aardvarks' teeth are unique among those of all mammals.