Cabassous unicinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:50.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Africa;" restricted to "l'Amérique" by Buffon (1763), and to Surinam by Thomas (1911a) .

DISTRIBUTION: South America east of the Andes from Colombia to Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

SYNONYMS: duodecimcinctus Schreber, 1774; hispidus Burmeister, 1854; latirostris Gray, 1873; loricatus Wagner, 1855; multicinctus Thunberg, 1818; octodecimcinctus Erxleben, 1777; squamicaudis Lund, 1845; verrucosus Wagner, 1844.