or toothless animals, a large and varied order of mammals, which is not happily named, for some of them have teeth. All are more or less perfectly covered with coarse hair, which in some is united into plates that make a protective armor. Their limbs are clawed. The Edentata are scattered over all of the grand divisions excepting Europe. In South America are found the sloth and the great ant-eater; in South Africa, the aard-vark; in America, from Texas southwestward, the armadillo; and in Asia and Africa, the pangolin. These may be considered representative animals of the order.