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Dasypus septemcinctus Linnaeus 1758

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Dasypus septemcinctus Linnaeus 1758

Dasypus septemcinctus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 51.

Type Locality: "Indiis;" restricted to Pernambuco, Brazil, by Hamlett (1939).

Vernacular Names: Seven-banded Armadillo.

Synonyms: Dasypus megalolepis (Cope 1889); Dasypus propalatum (Rhoads 1894); Dasypus megalolepe Yepes 1928.

Distribution: Lower Amazon Basin of Brazil to the Gran Chaco of Bolivia, Paraguay, and N Argentina.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cingulata, pp. 94-99 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 95, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cingulata
Family
Dasypodidae
Genus
Dasypus
Species
septemcinctus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dasypus septemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
  • Hamlett, G. W. D. 1939. Identity of Dasypus septemcinctus Linnaeus with notes on some related species. Journal of Mammalogy, 20: 328 - 336.
  • Yepes, J. 1928. Los " Edentata " argentinos. Sistematica y distribucion. Revista de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, ser. 2 a, 1: 461 - 515, 6 figs [Reprint separate is independently paginated].