#0328 · 🦊 mammals
Northern Tamandua
🇳🇱 Noordelijke tamandoea ·Tamandua mexicana
📍 Los Santos, Bucaramanga, Santander, CO
📍 61735 Mich., México
📍 Dibulla, La Guajira, Colombia
📍 Las Piedras, El Salvador
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jason Vassallo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Tom Murray · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Mateo Hernandez Schmidt · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Miguel Angel Tornez Alvarez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Steven Easley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Luis Trinchan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Los Santos, Bucaramanga, Santander, CO:© COQUETTE AESTHETIC · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 61735 Mich., México:© Juan Ma Contortrix · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Dibulla, La Guajira, Colombia:© Jason Vassallo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Las Piedras, El Salvador:© Kevin Enrique Clavel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
The northern tamandua ( Tamandua mexicana ) is a species of tamandua, an anteater in the family Myrmecophagidae. They live in tropical and subtropical forests from southern Mexico, through Central America, and to the edge of the northern Andes.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,232 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Henri de Saussure in 1860 (166 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Northern Tamandua
- Nederlands
- Noordelijke tamandoea
- scientific name
- Tamandua mexicana
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Pilosa
- family
- Myrmecophagidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,232
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1860 by Henri de Saussure
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Myrmecophagidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47105, Wikidata Q839675, GBIF 2436335, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.