Ant-eater, B.C. (comic strip) character

Pangolin (scaly anteater), mammals found in tropical regions of Africa and Asia

Aardvark (earth pig), a medium-sized mammal native to Africa

Numbat (formerly Banded Anteater), a small marsupial endemic to western Australia

Echidna (spiny anteater), a family of monotremes native to New Guinea and Australia

"Anteater" properly refers to the four species of the suborder Vermilingua native to Mexico, Central America, and tropical South America. 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: