Dasypodidae, Gray, 1821

Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, Check List 16 (1), pp. 127-136 : 129-130

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https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.1.127

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scientific name

Dasypodidae
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Family Dasypodidae View in CoL

Dasypus pastasae (Thomas, 1901) , Greater Long-nosed Armadillo

Figure 2A

Records. Recorded by hunting calendar (09°15.898′S, 068°58.372′W) and opportunistic sightings.

Identification. The dark brown carapace, with yellow edges, presents 10–13 moveable bands, which are not

well separated. The head has more than 50 plates, which are irregularly distributed. The tail is not entirely covered with dermal plates, which are few in number and sparsely distributed ( Hayssen 2014).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cingulata

Family

Dasypodidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cingulata

Family

Dasypodidae

Genus

Dasypus

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