Ironically, the Cambridge University book uses the made-up "Brazlian aardvark" moniker copied from Wikipedia in a passage that reads as follows: "In the case o

Ironically, the Cambridge University book uses the made-up "Brazlian aardvark" moniker copied from Wikipedia in a passage that reads as follows: "In the case of the Coati, for instance, also known as the Brazilian aardvark, Buffon explained that 'Marcgrave, and practically all of the Naturalists after him, said that the aardvark had six toes in its hind feet: M. Brisson is the only one who has not copied that error of Marcgrave." https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Legacy_of_Dutch_Brazil/pTiNAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Brazilian+aardvark&pg=PA179&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Legacy_of_Dutch_B... The story of how Wikipedia came to call the coati the Brazilian aardvark is told in great detail in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-a-raccoon-became-an-aardvark https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-a-ra...