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Dasypus
Taxonomy
Dasypus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Dasypodoidea, Dasipidae, Dasypodinae.
It was assigned to Bestiae by Linnaeus (1758); to Dasypina by Gray (1825); to Dasypidae by Ameghino (1902) and Rovereto (1914); to Dasypodinae by Lydekker (1894), Hay (1930) and Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Dasypodidae by Carroll (1988), Downing and White (1995) and McDonald and Naples (2007); and to Dasypodini by McKenna and Bell (1997), Rincón et al. (2008) and Alfonso-Rojas et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Bestiae by Linnaeus (1758); to Dasypina by Gray (1825); to Dasypidae by Ameghino (1902) and Rovereto (1914); to Dasypodinae by Lydekker (1894), Hay (1930) and Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Dasypodidae by Carroll (1988), Downing and White (1995) and McDonald and Naples (2007); and to Dasypodini by McKenna and Bell (1997), Rincón et al. (2008) and Alfonso-Rojas et al. (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Dasypus Linnaeus p. 50 |
| 1825 | Dasypus Gray p. 343 |
| 1827 | Tatusia Cuvier p. 309 |
| 1854 | Praopus Burmeister |
| 1889 | Tatusia Ameghino p. 861 |
| 1894 | Dasypus Lydekker p. 55 |
| 1894 | Tatusia Lydekker p. 70 |
| 1902 | Dasypus Ameghino |
| 1914 | Dasypus Rovereto p. 109 |
| 1930 | Dasypus Hay p. 416 |
| 1980 | Dasypus Kurten and Anderson p. 130 |
| 1988 | Dasypus Carroll |
| 1995 | Dasypus Downing and White p. 389 |
| 1997 | Dasypus McKenna and Bell p. 83 |
| 2007 | Dasypus McDonald and Naples p. 153 |
| 2008 | Dasypus Rincón et al. p. 198 |
| 2021 | Dasypus Alfonso-Rojas et al. |
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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. Dasypus Linnaeus 1758
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Subg. Dasypus (Cryptophractus) Wetzel and Mondolfi 1979
Subg. Dasypus (Dasypus) Linnaeus 1758
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Dasypus (Dasypus) hybridus Desmarest 1804 [southern long-nosed armadillo]
Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus Linnaeus 1758 [nine-banded armadillo]
Dasypus (Dasypus) sabanicola Mondolfi 1967 [Llanos long-nosed armadillo]
Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus Linnaeus 1758 [seven-banded armadillo]
Dasypus (Dasypus) yepesi Vizcaino 1995 [Yepes's mulita]
Subg. Dasypus (Hyperoambon) Peters 1865
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Dasypus (Hyperoambon) kappleri Krauss 1862 [greater long-nosed armadillo]
†Dasypus argentinus Moreno and Mercerat 1891
†Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 [beautiful armadillo]
†Dasypus hesternus Ameghino 1889
†Dasypus laevisculptus Rovereto 1914
Dasypus longicaudatus Kerr 1792
†Dasypus moreni Lydekker 1894
†Dasypus neogaeus Ameghino 1891
†Dasypus patagonicus Ameghino 1887
Dasypus peba Desmarest 1822
Dasypus platensis Ameghino 1889
†Dasypus proximus Ameghino 1887
†Dasypus scalabrini Moreno and Mercerat 1891
†Dasypus tarijensis Ameghino 1902
†Dasypus villosus Desmarest 1804
Invalid names: Tatu [synonym], Tatusia Cuvier 1827 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available