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--> ORDER CINGULATA
--> FAMILY Dasypodidae
--> SUBFAMILY Dasypodinae
--> GENUS Dasypus
SPECIES Dasypus hybridus
Author: | Desmarest, 1804. | Citation: | Tabl. Meth. Hist. Nat., in Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., 24: 28. | Common Name: | Southern Long-nosed Armadillo | Type Locality: | Paraguay, Misiones, San Ignacio (as restricted by Cabrera, 1958). | Distribution: | Argentina, Paraguay, and S Brazil south to Río Negro, Argentina. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Wetzel and Mondolfi (1979) included the Paraguayan paratype of mazzai Yepes, 1933; however, Vizcaíno (1995) included this specimen as a paratype of D. yepesi. Tamayo (1968) said Dasypus undecimcinctus Molina, 1782, was based on a composite of an animal known as "mulita’ and Cabassous unicinctus. The name undecimcintus Molina is best considered a nomen oblitum. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
auritus (Olfers, 1818) brevicaudus Larrañaga, 1923
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