page_title: List of mammals of Argentina
section_title: Order: Pilosa (anteaters, sloths and tamanduas)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Argentina / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Superorder: Xenarthra / Order: Pilosa (anteaters, sloths and tamanduas)
caption_attribution_description: English: Southern Tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) in the Frankfurt Zoo. Deutsch: Südlicher Tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) im Frankfurter Zoo.
context_page_description: This is a list of the native mammal species recorded in Argentina. As of January 2020, the list contains 402 mammal species from Argentina, of which one is extinct, seven are critically endangered, seventeen are endangered, sixteen are vulnerable, and thirty are near threatened.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature; those on the left are used here, those in the second column in some other articles:
context_section_description: The order Pilosa is extant only in the Americas and includes the anteaters, sloths, and tamanduas. Their ancestral home is South America. Numerous ground sloths, some of which reached the size of elephants, were once present in both North and South America, as well as on the Antilles, but all went extinct following the arrival of humans.
  Suborder: Folivora
  Family: Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths)
  Genus: Bradypus
  Brown-throated sloth, Bradypus variegatus LC
  Suborder: Vermilingua
  Family: Myrmecophagidae (American anteaters)
  Genus: Myrmecophaga
  Giant anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla VU
  Genus: Tamandua
  Southern tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla LC
caption: Southern tamandua
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