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Cabassous tatouay

Description

Cabassous tatouay (Desmarest 1804)

[Loricatus] tatouay Desmarest 1804, Tabl. Meth. Hist. Nat., in: Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Vol. 24: 28.

Type Locality: Paraguay, restricted to "a 27° de lat. Sur" by Cabrera (1958).

Vernacular Names: Greater Naked-tailed Armadillo.

Synonyms: Cabassous gymnurus (Olfers 1818); Cabassous lugubris (Gray 1873); Cabassous nudicaudus (Lund 1839).

Distribution: Uruguay, S Brazil, SE Paraguay, and NE Argentina.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (Uruguay); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

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 98, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Desmarest
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cingulata
Family
Dasypodidae
Genus
Cabassous
Species
tatouay
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cabassous tatouay (Desmarest, 1804) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.
  • Olfers, I. von. 1818. Bemerkungen zu Illiger's Ueberblick der Saugthiere nach ihrer Vertheilung uber die Welttheile, rucksichtich der Sudamericanischen Arten (Species). Abhandlung X in W. L. von Eschwege, Journal von Brasilien, odor vermischte Nachrichten aus Brasilien, auf wissenschaftlichen Reisen gesammelt. Heft 2 in F. Bertuch (ed.), Neue Bibliothek der wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen zur Erweiterung der Erd- und Volkerkunde, Band 15: 192 - 237. Weimar.