Tamandua tetradactyla

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	PILOSA	MYRMECOPHAGIDAE

Scientific Name:

Tamandua tetradactyla

Species Authority:

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/s:

English	–	Collared Anteater, Lesser Anteater, Northern Tamandua, Southern Tamandua, Tamandua
French	–	Fourmilier À Collier, Tamandou À Quatre Doigts, Tamandou Tétradactyle
Spanish	–	Brazo Fuerte, Hormiguero De Collar, Tamandúa De Collar

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s

Abba, A., Lara-Ruiz, P. & Members of the IUCN SSC Edentate Specialist Group

Evaluator/s:

da Fonseca, G.A.B. (Edentate Red List Authority) & Berridge, R. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Justification:
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, its occurrence in a number of protected areas, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

History:

2006	–	Least Concern (IUCN 2006)
1996	–	Lower Risk/least concern

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is found to the east of the Andes from Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad Island, and the Guianas (French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname), south to northern Uruguay and northern Argentina. It ranges from sea level to 1600 m asl (Bolivia).
Countries:	Native: Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; French Guiana; Guyana; Paraguay; Peru; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; Venezuela
Range Map:	(click map to view full version)

Population [top]

Population:	It is a common species.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	The species is adaptable to a variety of habitats, including gallery forests adjacent to savannas, and lowland and montane moist tropical rain forest (Eisenberg 1989).
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	There are no major threats to this species, although in some portions of their range they are hunted for meat or by domestic dogs (Aguiar and Fonseca 2008; Noss et al. 2008).

Major Threat(s):

There are no major threats to this species, although in some portions of their range they are hunted for meat or by domestic dogs (Aguiar and Fonseca 2008; Noss et al. 2008).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	This species is present in a number of protected areas. Further systematic studies of this species are needed to investigate its variation over its range.

Conservation Actions:

This species is present in a number of protected areas. Further systematic studies of this species are needed to investigate its variation over its range.

Citation:	Abba, A., Lara-Ruiz, P. & Members of the IUCN SSC Edentate Specialist Group 2008. Tamandua tetradactyla. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2010.
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