Cabassous is a genus of South and Central American armadillos.[1] The name is the Latinised form of the Kalini word for "armadillo".[2]
| Cabassous | |
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| Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
| Subfamily: | Tolypeutinae |
| Genus: | Cabassous McMurtrie, 1831 |
| Type species | |
| Dasypus unicinctus | |
| Species | |
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Cladogram of living Cabassous[3]
| Cabassous | |
The genus contains the following four species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| C. centralis | Northern naked-tailed armadillo | from Chiapas in southern Mexico to western Colombia, northwestern Ecuador and northwestern Venezuela | |
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C. chacoensis | Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo | the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay and north-central Argentina |
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C. tatouay | Greater naked-tailed armadillo | southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and Uruguay and extreme north-eastern Argentina |
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C. unicinctus | Southern naked-tailed armadillo | northern South America east of the Andes, as far south as northern Paraguay and southern Brazil. |
References
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- ^ Gardner, A.L. (2005). "Order Cingulata". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 97–98. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Hayssen, V. (2014). "Cabassous unicinctus". Mammalian Species (907): 16–23. doi:10.1644/907.
- ^ Gibb, Gillian C.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Kuch, Melanie; Enk, Jacob; Moraes-Barros, Nadia; Superina, Mariella; Poinar, Hendrik N.; Delsuc, Frédéric (2015). "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. PMC 4760074. PMID 26556496.
- ^ "Cabassous". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
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