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SPECIES Dasypus kappleri

Author:Krauss, 1862.
Citation:Archiv Naturgesch., 28(1): 20.
Common Name:Greater Long-nosed Armadillo
Type Locality:"Den Urwäldern des Marowiniflusse in Surinam;" restricted to the neighborhood of Albina near the mouth of the Marowijne River by Husson (1978).
Distribution:Colombia (east of the Andes), Venezuela (south of the Orinoco), Guyana, Surinam, and south through the Amazon Basin of Brazil, Ecuador and Perú to NE Bolivia.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
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SUBSPECIES kappleri

SUBSPECIES pastasae

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