Cabassous

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

Cabassous
Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo
Scientific classification
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

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

1. 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.
2. Hayssen, V. (2014). "Cabassous unicinctus". Mammalian Species. 46 (907): 16–23. doi:10.1644/907.
3. 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).
4. "Cabassous". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 March 2011.