Chaetophractus

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Chaetophractus [1]
Chaetophractus villosus (Wroclaw zoo).JPG
Big hairy armadillo (C. villosus)
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily: Euphractinae
Genus: Chaetophractus
Fitzinger, 1871
Type species
Dasypus villosus
Desmarest, 1804
Species
Chaetophractus Range.jpg

Chaetophractus is a small genus of armadillos in the family Chlamyphoridae. It contains the following three species:

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Chaetophractus vellerosus3.jpg Chaetophractus vellerosus Screaming hairy armadillo Central and southern parts of South America
Armadello in desert.JPG Chaetophractus villosus Big hairy armadillo The Pampas and Patagonia as far south as Santa Cruz, Argentina and Magallanes, Chile
Chaetophractus nationi, Oruro, Bolivia - 20090824.jpg Chaetophractus nationi Andean hairy armadillo Bolivia, in the region of the Puna; the departments of Oruro, La Paz, and Cochabamba, Bolivia and northern Chile

Members of the genus are endemic to the continent of South America. They are found in the central and southern countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Paraguay.

Chaetophractus nationi is probably a junior synonym of Chaetophractus vellerosus and the genus Chatophractus may be paraphyletic. [2] [3]

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. p. 96. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
  2. Abba, Agustín M.; Cassini, Guillermo H.; Valverde, Guido; Tilak, Marie-Ka; Vizcaíno, Sergio F.; Superina, Mariella; Delsuc, Frédéric (2015-08-03). "Systematics of hairy armadillos and the taxonomic status of the Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi)". Journal of Mammalogy. 96 (4): 673–689. doi: 10.1093/jmammal/gyv082 . ISSN   0022-2372.
  3. Gibb, Gillian C.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Kuch, Melanie; Enk, Jacob; Moraes-Barros, Nadia; Superina, Mariella; Poinar, Hendrik N.; Delsuc, Frédéric (2016-03-01). "Shotgun Mitogenomics Provides a Reference Phylogenetic Framework and Timescale for Living Xenarthrans". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33 (3): 621–642. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv250. ISSN   0737-4038. PMC   4760074 . PMID   26556496.