Tamandua tetradactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:35.

TYPE LOCALITY: "America meridionali;" restricted to Brazil, Pernambuco, Pernambuco [= Recife], by Thomas (1911a) .

DISTRIBUTION: South America east of the Andes from Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, and the Guianas, south to Uruguay and N Argentina.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Guatemala).

SYNONYMS: bivittata Desmarest, 1817; chapadensis J. A. Allen, 1904; crispa Rüppell, 1842; kriegi Krumbiegel, 1940; longicaudata Wagner, 1844; longicaudata Turner, 1853 (preoccupied); myosura Pallas, 1766; nigra Desmarest, 1804; opisthomelas Gray, 1873; quichua Thomas, 1927; straminea Cope, 1889; tamandua G. Cuvier, 1798 .