Anteater (disambiguation)

"Anteater" properly refers to the four species of xenarthran placental mammals of the suborder Vermilingua native to Mexico, Central America, and tropical South America. This includes the giant anteater, the silky anteater, the northern tamandua, and the southern tamandua.

Anteater can also refer to any of several unrelated species which have independently and convergently adapted to fill the same niche of eating ants or termites:

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