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Orycteropus (aardvark)
Taxonomy
Orycteropus was named by Geoffroy (1791) [also attributed to G. Cuvier 1798]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Orycteropina.
It was assigned to Orycteropina by Gray (1825); to Orycteropodidae by MacInnes (1955), Pickford (1975), Carroll (1988), Theodorou et al. (2003), Pickford (2003), Lehmann et al. (2004), Lehmann et al. (2005) and Pickford (2005); and to Orycteropodinae by Patterson (1975), Lehman et al. (2006), Lehmann (2007) and Lehmann (2008).
It was assigned to Orycteropina by Gray (1825); to Orycteropodidae by MacInnes (1955), Pickford (1975), Carroll (1988), Theodorou et al. (2003), Pickford (2003), Lehmann et al. (2004), Lehmann et al. (2005) and Pickford (2005); and to Orycteropodinae by Patterson (1975), Lehman et al. (2006), Lehmann (2007) and Lehmann (2008).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1791 | Orycteropus Geoffroy |
1825 | Orycteropus Gray p. 343 |
1955 | Orycteropus MacInnes p. 27 |
1975 | Orycteropus Patterson p. 201 |
1975 | Orycteropus Pickford p. 62 |
1988 | Orycteropus Carroll |
2003 | Orycteropus Pickford p. 195 |
2003 | Orycteropus Theodorou et al. |
2004 | Orycteropus Lehmann et al. p. 202 |
2005 | Orycteropus Lehmann et al. p. 110 |
2005 | Orycteropus Pickford p. 719 |
2006 | Orycteropus Lehman et al. p. 694 |
2007 | Orycteropus Lehmann p. 181 |
2008 | Orycteropus Lehmann p. 69 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Orycteropus Geoffroy 1791 [aardvark]
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†Orycteropus abundulafus Lehmann et al. 2005
Orycteropus afer Pallas 1766 [aardvark]
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Invalid names: Myrmecophaga capensis Gmelin 1788 [synonym], Orycteropus haussanus Matschie 1900 [synonym], Orycteropus senegalensis Schinz 1845 [synonym], Orycteropus wertheri Matschie 1900 [synonym]
†Orycteropus browni Colbert 1933
†Orycteropus chemeldoi Pickford 1975
†Orycteropus crassidens MacInnes 1955
†Orycteropus depereti Helbing 1933
†Orycteropus djourabensis Lehmann et al. 2004
†Orycteropus erikssoni Lonnberg 1906
†Orycteropus gaudryi Forsyth Major 1888
†Orycteropus leptodon Hirst 1906
†Orycteropus mauritanicus Arambourg 1954
†Orycteropus minutus Pickford 1975
†Orycteropus pilgrimi Colbert 1933
†Orycteropus pottieri Ozansoy 1965
†Orycteropus sensi Tekkaya 1993
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available