Edentata

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Noun1.Edentata - order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteatersEdentata - order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos
order Edentata
animal order - the order of animals
Eutheria, subclass Eutheria - all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
edentate - primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America
suborder Xenarthra, Xenarthra - armadillos; American anteaters; sloths
family Mylodontidae, Mylodontidae - extinct South American edentates
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South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers, a family of monkeys, the llama, peccari, tapir, opossums, and, especially, several genera of Edentata, the order which includes the sloths, ant-eaters, and armadilloes.
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Cetacea (whales) and Edentata (armadilloes, scaly ant-eaters, &c.), that these are likewise the most abnormal in their teeth.
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In the Philippines, multiple species of Cycas were identified to be present such as Cycas edentata. There have been different studies on the various medicinal use of Cycas sp.
Antidiabetic effects of Cycas edentata aqueous leaf extract on the blood glucose levels of alloxan-induced diabetic ICR mice (Mus musculus L.)
Edentata. Washington: The Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Edentate Specialist Group.
Detection of Toxoplasma gondii in a free-ranging giant anteater/Deteccao de Toxoplasma gondii em tamandua-bandeira de vida livre
The ear region in Xenarthrans (= Edentata: Mammalia).
Methods for Estimating the Volume of the Tympanic Bulla in the Big Hairy Armadillo Chaetophractus villosus (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Dasypodidae)/Metodos para la Estimacion del Volumen de Bula Timpanica en el Quirquincho Grande Chaetophractus villosus (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Dasypodidae)
8.00 1.00 Euaspis 12.00 1.00 edentata Megachilidae Lithurgus 7.00 1.00 atratus Megachile 12.67 2.08 lanata Megachile 4.33 0.58 vigilans Chrysididae Chrysis oculata 4.33 0.58 Stilbum 10.00 1.00 cyanurum splendidum Antepipona sp.
Species Composition and Visiting Frequencies of Flower Visitors of Chromolaena odorata in a Dry Zone Forest Patch of Sri Lanka
edentata which were then described as new species (Willemse 1982).
Rhacocleis andikithirensis a new bush-cricket from Greece (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae)
The species of Tamandua Gray (Edentata, Myrmecophagidae).
New mammalian records in the Parque Nacional Cerros de Amotape, northwestern Peru
Fossil Proboscidea and Edentata of the San Pedro Valley, Arizona.
Two new glyptodont records (Mammalia: Cingulata) from the late Pleistocene of Tamaulipas and Tlaxcala, Mexico: implications for the taxonomy of the genus Glyptotherium
Helicostomella edentata (FaurACopyright-Framiet 1924)
A Check-List of Tintinnids (Protozoa: Ciliophora) in the Coastal Zone of Turkey
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