Cabassous squamicaudis

(P. W. Lund, 1845)

Cerrado Naked-tailed Armadillo

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Atlantogenata
Superorder : Xenarthra
Order : Cingulata
Family : Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily : Tolypeutinae
Genus : Cabassous

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Lund, P.W. 1845. Meddelelse af det Udbytte de i 1844 undersøgte Knoglehuler have afgivet til Kundskaben om Brasiliens Dyreverden før sidste Jordomvæltning. Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter 12:57-94.

Original name as described

Xenurus squamicaudis

Type material

ZMUC L-33

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Restricted to “Rio das Velhas Floddal”, Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil by Wetzel and colleagues in 2008.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil · Bolivia · Paraguay

Taxonomy notes

split from C. unicinctus; moved from Dasypodidae to Chlamyphoridae

Taxonomy notes citation

Feijó, A. & Anacleto, T. C. (2021). Taxonomic revision of the genus Cabassous McMurtrie, 1831 (Cingulata: Chlamyphoridae), with revalidation of Cabassous squamicaudis (Lund, 1845). Zootaxa, 4974(1), 47-78. · Gibb, G. C., Condamine, F. L., Kuch, M., Enk, J., Moraes-Barros, N., Superina, M., ... & Delsuc, F. (2016). Shotgun mitogenomics provides a reference phylogenetic framework and timescale for living xenarthrans. Molecular biology and evolution, 33(3), 621-642.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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