Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:51.

TYPE LOCALITY: "America Meridionali;" restricted to Pernambuco, Brazil, by Cabrera (1958) .

DISTRIBUTION: S USA, México, Central and South America to N Argentina, the Lesser Antilles (Grenada), and Trinidad and Tobago.

SYNONYMS: aequatorialis Lönnberg, 1913; boliviensis Gray, 1873; brevirostris Gray, 1873; davisi Russell, 1953; fenestratus Peters, 1864; granadiana Gray, 1873; hoplites G. M. Allen, 1911; leptocephala Gray, 1873; leptorhynchus Gray, 1873; longicaudatus Kerr, 1792; longicaudatus Daudin, in Lacépède, 1799; longicaudus Wied, 1826; lundi Fitzinger, 1871; mozzai Yepes, 1933; mexianae Hagmann, 1908; mexicanus Peters, 1864; niger Desmarest, 1804; niger Olfers, 1818 (preoccupied); niger Lichtenstein, 1818 (preoccupied); octocintus Schreber, 1774; peba Desmarest, 1822; serratus G. Fischer, 1814; texanum Bailey, 1905; uroceras Lund, 1839.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by McBee and Baker (1982, Mammalian Species, 162).