Georgia Wildlife Web Site; mammals: xenarthra  Order xenarthra includes armadillos, anteaters, and sloths. Although these mammals may seem very different on the outside, they have several similarities in their skeletons. Animals in this order either have no teeth, or have a reduced number of teeth. They...

Order XENARTHRA  Download an outline of this lecture as a Word Document or an ADOBE PDF document. Order XENARTHRA (formerly Edentata) anteaters, sloths and armadillos aberrant Neotropical to Nearctic order whose members diverged long ago serum albumin studies indicate that the families...

X E N A R T H R A O R G  Of or pertaining to the mammalian order Xenarthra. 2) Any species of armadillo, anteater, or sloth. The Xenarthran order was once called Edentata, which in Latin means without teeth However, only the eleven species of Anteaters are actually toothless. Armadillos,...