Chaetophractus vellerosus

(J. E. Gray, 1865)

Screaming Hairy Armadillo

Formerly Chaetophractus nationi, Andean Hairy Armadillo.  Also as Lesser Hairy Armadillo|Small Hairy Armadillo.
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Location:Bolivia, Santa Cruz department, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Municipal Zoo of South American Fauna Noel Kempff MercadoDate taken:Jul 9, 1995

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Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Atlantogenata
Superorder : Xenarthra
Order : Cingulata
Superfamily : Dasypodoidea
Family : Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily : Euphractinae
Genus : Chaetophractus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gray, J.E. 1865-10. Revision of the genera and species of entomophagous Edentata, founded on the examination of the specimens in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865(2):359-386.

Original name as described

Dasypus vellerosus

Other common names

Lesser Hairy Armadillo · Small Hairy Armadillo · Andean Hairy Armadillo

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1847.11.22.20

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Santa Cruz de la Sierra, " Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru? · Bolivia · Chile · Paraguay · Argentina

Taxonomy notes

includes nationi; moved from Dasypodidae to Chlamyphoridae

Taxonomy notes citation

Abba, A.M., Cassini, G.H., Valverde, G., Tilak, M.-K., Vizcaíno, S.F., Superina, M. and Delsuc, F. 2015. Systematics of hairy armadillos and the taxonomic status of the Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi). Journal of Mammalogy 96(4):673-689. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyv082 · Gibb, G.C., Condamine, F.L., Kuch, M., Enk, J., Moraes-Barros, N., Superina, M., Poinar, H.N. and Delsuc, F. 2016. Shotgun mitogenomics provides a reference phylogenetic framework and timescale for living xenarthrans. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33(3):621-642. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv250

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 16 names and synonyms.

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