Southern naked-tailed armadillo
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| Southern naked-tailed armadillo | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Dasypodidae |
| Genus: | Cabassous |
| Species: | C. unicinctus |
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| Cabassous unicinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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| Southern naked-tailed armadillo range | |
The southern naked-tailed armadillo, Cabassous unicinctus, is a small species of armadillo from South America. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
It is a solitary nocturnal and terrestrial animal, living in many habitats from rainforest to grassland. As are many armadillos, it is an insectivore, feeding on ants and termites. It digs burrows with an entrance of about 16 cm diameter; these are used for only one night then abandoned.
Subspecies
- Cabassous unicinctus squamicaudis Lund, 1845
- Cabassous unicinctus unicinctus Linnaeus, 1758
References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Cabassous unicinctus |
- ↑ Cuellar, E. & Members of the IUCN SSC Edentate Specialist Group (2008). Cabassous unicinctus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
- Louise H. Emmons and Francois Feer, 1997 - Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide.
- Gardner, A. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M, eds. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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