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--> GENUS Dasypus
SPECIES Dasypus septemcinctus
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 51. | Common Name: | Seven-banded Armadillo | Type Locality: | "Indiis;" restricted to Pernambuco, Brazil, by Hamlett (1939). | Distribution: | Lower Amazon Basin of Brazil to the Gran Chaco of Bolivia, Paraguay, and N Argentina. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | |
| Offspring: | Synonyms:
megalolepis (Cope, 1889) propalatum (Rhoads, 1894) megalolepe Yepes, 1928
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