Dasypus guianensis

Barthe, Feijó, de Thoisy, Catzeflis, Billet, Hautier, & Delsuc in Barthe, Rancilhac, Arteaga, Feijó, Tilak, Justy, Loughry, C. M. McDonough, de Thoisy, Catzeflis, Billet, Hautier, Nabholz, & Delsuc, 2024

Guianan Long-nosed Armadillo

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Atlantogenata
Superorder : Xenarthra
Order : Cingulata
Family : Dasypodidae
Genus : Dasypus
Subgenus : Dasypus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Barthe, M., Rancilhac, L., Arteaga, M.C., Feijó, J.A., Tilak, M.-K., Justy, F., Loughry, W.J., McDonough, C.M., de Thoisy, B., Catzeflis, F.M., Billet, G., Hautier, L., Nabholz, B. and Delsuc, F. 2024-06-22. Exon capture museomics deciphers the nine-banded armadillo species complex and identifies a new species endemic to the Guiana Shield. Systematic Biology (in press).

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae027

Original name as described

Dasypus guianensis

Other common names

Nine-banded Armadillo

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-2001-1317

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Petit-Saut, Sinnamary, French Guiana."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Venezuela · Brazil · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana

Taxonomy notes

recently described based on populations previously attributed to D. novemcinctus

Taxonomy notes citation

Barthe, M., Rancilhac, L., Arteaga, M.C., Feijó, A., Tilak, M.K., Justy, F., Loughry, W.J., McDonough, C.M., Thoisy, B. de, Catzeflis, F., Billet, G., Hautier, L., Nabholz, B. & Delsuc, F. 2024. Exon capture museomics deciphers the nine-banded armadillo species complex and identifies a new species endemic to the Guiana Shield. Systematic Biology, syae027 (In Press).

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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