| Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Dasypodidae |
| Genus: | Cabassous |
| Species: | C. centralis |
| Binomial name | |
| Cabassous centralis (Miller, 1899) |
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| Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo range | |
The Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo (Cabassous centralis) is a species of armadillo.[2] It is found from Chiapas in southern Mexico to western Colombia, northwestern Ecuador and northwestern Venezuela, at altitudes from sea level to 3000 m.[1] It is one of only two species of armadillos found outside of South America (the other being the more widely distributed Nine-banded Armadillo).
This armadillo is seldom sighted, and may be rare and/or patchily distributed.[1] It is a solitary, partly fossorial insectivore. Its habitats include tropical dry forest, moderately moist forest, cloud forest and forest edges, including secondary and agriculturally disturbed forest, as well as in dry savanna and Colombian subparamo.[1] However, it appears to prefer undisturbed primary forest, and thus may be vulnerable to deforestation and other forms of habitat disturbance.[1]
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