Question

giant anteaters live in central and south america. as their name suggests, they eat ants and termites. first, an anteater tears open insect nests with its long claws. then, it extends its extremely long, sticky tongue into the nest to catch its prey. one anteater eats 35,000 ants and termites in a day. look at the table showing the linnaean levels of classification for the giant anteater. then create the scientific name for this species. choose the best option for each part of the name.
kingdom: animalia
phylum: chordata
class: mammalia
order: pilosa
family: myrmecophagidae
genus: myrmecophaga
species: tridactyla

Explanation:

The scientific name of an organism is composed of its genus and species names. From the table, the genus is Myrmecophaga and the species is tridactyla.

Answer:

Myrmecophaga tridactyla