Cabassous tatouay
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Cingulata |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Chlamyphoridae
Subfamilia: Tolypeutinae
Genus: Cabassous
Species: Cabassous tatouay
Name
[edit]Cabassous tatouay (Desmarest, 1804)
- Type material: Unknown.
- Type locality: not stated, defined to “Paraguay, a 27° de lat. sur” by Cabrera (1958: 219).
Combinations
[edit]- Loricatus tatouay Desmarest, 1804: 28 [original combination]
- Tatusia tatouay: Lesson, 1827: 311 [subsequent combination]
- Xenurus tatouay: Gervais, 1855: 254 [subsequent combination]
- Cabassous tatouay: Cabrera, 1958: 219 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]- Dasypus dasycercus G. Fischer, 1814: ix, 124
- Type material: Unknown.
- Type locality: “Paraquai [=Paraguay]”.
- Dasypus gymnurus Illiger, 1815: 108 [nomen nudum]
- Tatus gymnurus Olfers, 1818: 220
- Type material: Unknown, based on “Tatou tatouay” of Azara (1801: 155).
- Type locality: “Paraguay”.
- Xenurus nudicaudus Lund, 1839: 216 [nomen nudum]
- Xenurus nudicaudis Lund, 1841: 227
- Dasypus nudi-cauda Larrañaga, 1923: 343
- Type material: Unknown, based on “Tatuaí” of Azara (1802: 131).
- Type locality: “provincial paracuarensi; longitudine 27 1/3 pollices”.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Desmarest, A.G. 1804. Tableau méthodique des mammifères. Pp. 5–38 in Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l’économie rurale et domestique: par une sociéte de naturalistes et d’agriculteurs: avec des figures tirées des trois règnes de la nature. Volume 24. Deterville: Paris.
- Cabrera, A. [1957] 1958. Catálogo de los mamíferos de América del Sur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia". Zoologia 4: xvi + iv + 308 pp.
Additional references
[edit]- Wetzel, R.M. 1980. Revision of the naked-tailed armadillos, genus Cabassous McMurtrie. Annals of Carnegie Museum 49: 323–357. BHL Reference page.
- Gardner, A.L. 2005. Order Cingulata. Pp. 94–99 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page.
- Wetzel, R.M., Gardner, A.L., Redford, K.H. & Eisenberg, J.F. [2007] 2008. Order Cingulata. Pp. 128–156 in Gardner, A.L. (ed.), Mammals of South America. Volume 1. Marsupials, xenarthrans, shrews, and bats. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-226-28240-4. Reference page.
Vernacular names
[edit]English: Greater Naked-tailed Armadillo
español: Cabasú grande
Nederlands: Groot kaalstaartgordeldier
português do Brasil: Tatu-de-rabo-mole-grande
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