Tolypeutes

Tolypeutes

Southern Three-banded Armadillo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Dasypodidae
Genus:	Tolypeutes Illiger, 1811
Species
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The genus Tolypeutes contains the two species of three-banded armadillos. They are restricted to South America, mostly Brazil.

Species

There are two recognized species:^[1]

Extant Cingulata (Armadillos) species by subfamily

Kingdom Animalia · Phylum Chordata · Class Mammalia · Infraclass Eutheria · Superorder Xenarthra

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)

Calyptophractus	Greater Fairy Armadillo (C. retusus)

Chaetophractus	Andean Hairy Armadillo (C. nationi) · Screaming Hairy Armadillo (C. vellerosus) · Big Hairy Armadillo (C. villosus)

Chlamyphorus	Pink Fairy Armadillo (C. truncatus)

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)

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