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Chlamyphoridae

Russell A. Mittermeier;Don E. Wilson

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Chlamyphoridae

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thumb|right|Taxidermied pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus)

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassMammalia
  4. OrderCingulata
  5. FamilyChlamyphoridae
Observations recorded2

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Cingulata
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Chlamyphorus truncatus - Naturmuseum Senckenberg - DSC02081.JPG
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taxon name
Chlamyphoridae
taxon rank
family
topic's main category
Category:Chlamyphoridae
Commons category
Chlamyphoridae
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Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Classification
  • Phylogeny
  • References

thumb|right|Taxidermied pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus)

Chlamyphoridae is a family of cingulate mammals. While glyptodonts have traditionally been considered stem-group cingulates outside the group that contains modern armadillos, there had been speculation that the extant family Dasypodidae could be paraphyletic based on morphological evidence. In 2016, an analysis of Doedicurus mtDNA found it was, in fact, nested within the modern armadillos as the sister group of a clade consisting of Chlamyphorinae and Tolypeutinae. For this reason, all extant armadillos but Dasypus were relocated to a new family. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús), meaning "cloak", and φόρος (phóros), "bearing".

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

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