Pilosa

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Pilosa
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Pilosa species of different families; from top-left, clockwise: Silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Xenarthra
Order: Pilosa
Flower, 1883
Families
Red: anteater ,Blue: sloth,Purple: both sloth and anteater

The order Pilosa

placental mammals, native to the Americas. It includes anteaters and sloths (which include the extinct ground sloths). The name comes from the Latin word for "hairy".[2]

Origins and taxonomy

The

Mesozoic Era). The presence of these animals in Central America and their former presence in North America is a result of the Great American Interchange. A number of sloths were also formerly present on the Antilles, which they reached from South America by some combination of rafting or floating
with the prevailing currents.

Together with the

polyphyletic
; it contained unrelated families and was thus invalid.

Classification

Taxonomy

Restoration of the ground sloth Nothrotheriops

Order Pilosa

Phylogeny

Major families within Pilosa[4]

  Pilosa  
  
Vermilingua
  
  
Folivora
  
  Megalocnoidea  
  Mylodontoidea  

Scelidotheriidae

Choloepodidae

Mylodontidae

  
Megatherioidea
  

Megalonychidae

Bradypodidae

Cladogram of living Pilosa[4][5][6]

  Pilosa  
  
Vermilingua
  
  Cyclopedidae  
  
Cyclopes
  

C. rufus

C. thomasi

C. ida

C. xinguensis

C. didactylus

C. dorsalis

  Myrmecophagidae  
  
Myrmecophaga
  

M. tridactyla

  Tamandua  

T. mexicana

T. tetradactyla

  
Folivora
  
  
Choloepodidae
  
  
Choloepus
  

C. didactylus

C. hoffmanni

  
Bradypodidae
  
  
Bradypus
  

B. torquatus

B. pygmaeus

B. tridactylus

B. variegatus

References

  1. OCLC 62265494
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  3. ^ A proposed clade, Atlantogenata, would include Xenarthra and early African mammals.
  4. ^
    S2CID 174813630
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  • Data related to Pilosa at Wikispecies
  • Media related to Pilosa at Wikimedia Commons
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