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

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.

SYNONYMS: megalolepis Cope, 1889; propalatum Rhoads, 1894.