This small anteater ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. Its yellowish-brown body has more yellow on the tail and limbs, with a broad chest stripe. It is nocturnal and arboreal in mangroves and tropical rainforest.
The body is yellowish brown, with yellower tail and limbs. It has no dorsal stripe and has a strongly developed, extensive stripe on the chest.
It inhabits mangrove swamps and tropical rainforest, where it is arboreal and nocturnal. Direct information about its diet is unavailable; feeding mainly on ants is presented as a presumption in the source.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.