Cabassous
Appearance
Cabassous | |
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Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Cingulata |
Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
Subfamily: | Tolypeutinae |
Genus: | Cabassous McMurtrie, 1831 |
Type species | |
Dasypus unicinctus | |
Species | |
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Cabassous is a genus of South and Central American armadillos.[1] The name is the Latinised form of the Kalini word for "armadillo".[2]
Cladogram of living Cabassous[3]
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The genus contains the following four species:[4]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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C. centralis | Northern naked-tailed armadillo | from Chiapas in southern Mexico to western Colombia, northwestern Ecuador and northwestern Venezuela | |
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C. chacoensis | Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo | the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay and north-central Argentina |
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C. tatouay | Greater naked-tailed armadillo | southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and Uruguay and extreme north-eastern Argentina |
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C. unicinctus | Southern naked-tailed armadillo | northern South America east of the Andes, as far south as northern Paraguay and southern Brazil. |
References
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- OCLC 62265494.
- doi:10.1644/907.
- PMID 26556496.
- ^ "Cabassous". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 March 2011.