Family Myrmecobiidae Waterhouse 1841 (numbat)
Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Myrmecobiidae
Parent taxon: Dasyuromorphia according to M. S. Y. Springer et al. 1994
See also Cope 1889, Gadow 1898, Krajewski et al. 1992, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Nowak 1991
Sister taxa: Ankotarinja, Dasylurinja, Dasyuroidea, Joculusium, Keeuna, Malleodectidae, Wakamatha
Subtaxa: Myrmecobius
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Myrmecobiidae in the database