Cabassous

Genus of mammals belonging to the armadillo order of xenarthrans

Cabassous

Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:	Tolypeutinae
Genus:	Cabassous McMurtrie, 1831
Type species
Dasypus unicinctus
Species
Cabassous centralis Cabassous chacoensis Cabassous tatouay Cabassous unicinctus

Cabassous is a genus of South and Central American armadillos.^[1] The name is the Latinised form of the Kalini word for "armadillo".^[2]

Cladogram of living Cabassous^[3]

Cabassous

C. tatouay

C. chacoensis

	C. centralis

	C. unicinctus

The genus contains the following four species:^[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	C. centralis	Northern naked-tailed armadillo	from Chiapas in southern Mexico to western Colombia, northwestern Ecuador and northwestern Venezuela
	C. chacoensis	Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo	the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay and north-central Argentina
	C. tatouay	Greater naked-tailed armadillo	southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and Uruguay and extreme north-eastern Argentina
	C. unicinctus	Southern naked-tailed armadillo	northern South America east of the Andes, as far south as northern Paraguay and southern Brazil.

References

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^ Gardner, A.L. (2005). "Order Cingulata". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 97–98. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^ Hayssen, V. (2014). "Cabassous unicinctus". Mammalian Species (907): 16–23. doi:10.1644/907.
^ Gibb, Gillian C.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Kuch, Melanie; Enk, Jacob; Moraes-Barros, Nadia; Superina, Mariella; Poinar, Hendrik N.; Delsuc, Frédéric (2015). "Shotgun Mitogenomics Provides a Reference PhyloGenetic Framework and Timescale for Living Xenarthrans". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33 (3): 621–642. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv250. PMC 4760074. PMID 26556496.
^ "Cabassous". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 March 2011.

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Extant Cingulata (Armadillos) species by subfamily

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Infraclass Eutheria
Superorder Xenarthra

Calyptophractus	Greater fairy armadillo (C. retusus)
Chlamyphorus	Pink fairy armadillo (C. truncatus)

Dasypus	Southern long-nosed armadillo (D. hybridus) Greater long-nosed armadillo (D. kappleri) Nine-banded armadillo (D. novemcinctus) Hairy long-nosed armadillo (D. pilosus) Llanos long-nosed armadillo (D. sabanicola) Seven-banded armadillo (D. septemcinctus) Yepes's mulita (Dasypus yepesi)

Chaetophractus	Andean hairy armadillo (C. nationi) Screaming hairy armadillo (C. vellerosus) Big hairy armadillo (C. villosus)
Euphractus	Six-banded armadillo (E. sexcinctus)
Zaedyus	Pichi (Z. pichiy)

Cabassous	Northern naked-tailed armadillo (C. centralis) Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo (C. chacoensis) Greater naked-tailed armadillo (C. tatouay) Southern naked-tailed armadillo (C. unicinctus)
Priodontes	Giant armadillo (P. maximus)
Tolypeutes	Southern three-banded armadillo (T. matacus) Brazilian three-banded armadillo (T. tricinctus)

Category

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Genera of armadillos and their extinct allies

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Xenarthra

† Noatherium
† Saltatherium

†Peltephilidae	Anantiosodon Epipeltephilus Parapeltecoelus Peltecoelus Peltephilus Ronwolffia
†Pachyarmatheriidae	Neoglyptatelus Pachyarmatherium
†Pampatheriidae	Holmesina Kraglievichia Machlydotherium? Pampatherium Plaina Scirrotherium Tonnicinctus Vassallia Yuruatherium

†Acantharodeia
†Amblytatus
†Archaeutatus
†Barrancatatus
†Chasicotatus
†Chorobates
†Coelutatus
†Eocoleophorus
†Epipeltecoelus
†Eutatus
†Hemiutaetus
†Isutaetus
†Lumbreratherium
†Macrochorobates
†Mazzoniphractus
†Meteutatus
†Prodasypus
†Prostegotherium
†Pucatherium
†Punatherium
†Stenotatus
†Utaetus

†Stegotherium

†Astegotheriini	Astegotherium Nanoastegotherium Parastegosimpsonia Riostegotherium Stegosimpsonia
Dasypodini	†Anadasypus Dasypus †Pliodasypus †Propraopus

†Proeutatus
Chlamyphorinae	Calyptophractus †Chlamydophractus Chlamyphorus
Euphractinae	Chaetophractus †Doellotatus Euphractus †Macroeuphractus †Paleurphractus †Proeuphractus †Prozaedyus Zaedyus
†Glyptodontinae	Andinoglyptodon Asterostemma Boreostemma Castellanosia Clypeotherium Cochlops Comaphorus Coscinocercus Daedicuroides Doedicurus Eleutherocercus Eosclerocalyptus Eucinepeltus Glyptatelus Glyptodon Glyptodontidium Glyptostracon Glyptotherium Heteroglyptodon Hoplophorus Kelenkura Lomaphorus Metopotoxus Neosclerocalyptus Neothoracophorus Neuryurus Palaehoplophorus Palaeopeltis Panochthus Paraglyptodon Parapropalaehoplophorus Phlyctaenopyga Plaxhaplous Plohophorus Prodaedicurus Propalaehoplophorus Protoglyptodon Pseudoneothoracophorus Stromaphorus Stromatherium Trachycalyptus Urotherium Xiphuroides
Tolypeutinae	Cabassous †Kuntinaru †Pedrolypeutes Priodontes Tolypeutes †Vetelia

Peltephilus ferox

Doedicurus clavicaudatus

Taxon identifiers
Cabassous	Wikidata: Q856879 Wikispecies: Cabassous ADW: Cabassous BOLD: 193630 CoL: 62JR7 EoL: 42355 GBIF: 2440805 iNaturalist: 47090 IRMNG: 1090678 ITIS: 624876 MSW: 11700043 NCBI: 48851 Open Tree of Life: 1014326 Paleobiology Database: 43529

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