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SPECIES Euphractus sexcinctus

Author:Linnaeus, 1758.
Citation:Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 51.
Common Name:Six-banded Armadillo
Type Locality:"America meridionale;" restricted to Pará, Brazil, by Thomas (1907b).
Distribution:S Surinam and adjacent Brazil as a northern isolated segment; E Brazil to Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and N Argentina as the main population.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Reviewed by Wetzel (1985b) and Redford and Wetzel (1985, Mammalian Species, 252).
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SUBSPECIES sexcinctus

SUBSPECIES boliviae

SUBSPECIES flavimanus

SUBSPECIES setosus

SUBSPECIES tucumanus

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