Spectacled bear
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| phylum | Chordata | The spectacled bear, also known as the Andean bear and locally as ukuko, jukumari, or ucumari, is the last remaining short-faced bear (subfamily Tremarctinae) and the closest living relative to the Florida spectacled bear and short-faced bears of the Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene age. Spectacled bears are the only surviving species of bear native to South America, and the only surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Carnivora | |
| suborder | Caniformia | |
| family | Ursidae | |
| genus | Tremarctos | |
| species | T. ornatus |
