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Cabassous (naked-tailed armadillo)
Taxonomy
Cabassous was named by McMurtie (1831). It is extant.
It was assigned to Tolypeutinae by Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Dasypodidae by Carroll (1988) and Salles et al. (2006); and to Priodontini by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Smith (2011).
It was assigned to Tolypeutinae by Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Dasypodidae by Carroll (1988) and Salles et al. (2006); and to Priodontini by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Smith (2011).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1831 | Cabassous McMurtie |
| 1873 | Ziphila Gray p. 22 |
| 1988 | Cabassous Carroll |
| 1997 | Cabassous McKenna and Bell p. 85 |
| 2005 | Cabassous Wilson and Reeder |
| 2006 | Cabassous Salles et al. p. 7 |
| 2011 | Cabassous Smith p. 1 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Cabassous McMurtie 1831 [naked-tailed armadillo]
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Cabassous centralis Miller 1899 [Northern naked-tailed armadillo]
Cabassous chacoensis Wetzel 1980 [Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo]
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Invalid names: Cabassous loricatus Yepes 1935 [synonym], Xenurus gymnurus Lahille 1899 [synonym]
Cabassous tatouay Desmarest 1804 [Greater naked-tailed armadillo]
Cabassous unicinctus Linnaeus 1758 [southern naked-tailed armadillo]
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Cabassous unicinctus squamicaudis Lund 1845
Cabassous unicinctus unicinctus Linnaeus 1758
Invalid names: Dasypus multicinctus Thunberg 1818 [synonym], Dasypus octodecimcinctus Erxleben 1777 [synonym], Dasypus undecimcinctus Illiger 1815 [synonym], Dasypus verrucosus Wagner 1844 [synonym], Xenurus duodecimcinctus Schreber 1774 [synonym], Ziphila lugubris Gray 1873 [synonym]
Invalid names: Ziphila Gray 1873 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Body mass estimates
| estimate | equation | reference |
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| 1.32 kg | Mammalia femur diameter | Gingerich 1990 |
| 1.17 kg | Mammalia humerus diameter | Gingerich 1990 |
| 1.91 kg | Mammalia tibia diameter | Gingerich 1990 |
| mean: 1.43 kg | ||
Measurements
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| femur diameter | 1 | 5.60 | |||||
| humerus diameter | 1 | 5.20 | |||||
| radius diameter | 1 | 2.90 | |||||
| tibia diameter | 1 | 6.00 |
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Smith 2011, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene - Holocene | Brazil (Sao Paulo) | Cabassous sp. (147815) | |
| Holocene | Panama | Cabassous centralis (21691) |