If you are writing for a general audience (even an general academic audience) you should avoid using in-group jargon without explanations. Overloading your audience with words they do not understand will not help you achieve your purpose.
Genus. Myrmecobius. The numbat is a small carnivorous marsupial from Australia, and the only member of the family Myrmecobiidae. It is a specialised termite-eater and is easily recognised by its slender, graceful body and short, stiff hair which is reddish-brown with black and white stripes across its back and rump.
Limpkin, photographed at Green Cay Nature Center, Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County, in spring 2014. You can't miss a limpkin, Aramus guarauna, once you've seen â or heard â one. There's just no other bird like it. And about the only place you'll see a limpkin, among the 50 states, is here Florida. Limpkins live year-round in the Sunshine State, the northern most point of their range, which extends through Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America as far as Uraguay.