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

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassMammalia
  4. OrderCingulata
  5. FamilyDasypodidae
Observations recorded1,962

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
18
Family
Dasypodidae
Collections
AMNH, LACM, FMNH, UTCM, NHMUK, KU
Recorded in
Brazil, Per̼, Guyana, Zoo

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

Cladogram of living Cabassous

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cabassous” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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