Chlamyphorinae

Fairy armadillo Temporal range: Late Miocene-Recent [1]
Chlamyphorus truncatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:	Chlamyphorinae Bonaparte, 1850
Genera
Calyptophractus , Fitzinger, 1871 Chlamyphorus , Harlan, 1825

Chlamyphorinae is a subfamily of South American armadillos in the family Chlamyphoridae. Members of this subfamily, the fairy armadillos, are largely fossorial and have reduced eyes and robust forearms with large claws for digging. ^[2]

Taxonomy

The subfamily has two monotypic genera: ^{[2] [3] [4]}

• Calyptophractus , greater fairy armadillo
• Chlamyphorus , pink fairy armadillo

Phylogeny

Chlamyphorinae is the sister group of Tolypeutinae (giant, three-banded and naked-tailed armadillos), as shown below.

Cladogram [4] [5] [3]

Cingulata Dasypodidae Chlamyphoridae Euphractinae Euphractus sexcinctus Zaedyus pichiy Chaetophractus villosus Chaetophractus nationi C. vellerosus †Glyptodontinae ( Doedicurus ) Chlamyphorinae Chlamyphorus truncatus Calyptophractus retusus Tolypeutinae Priodontes maximus Tolypeutes T. tricinctus T. matacus Cabassous C. tatouay C. chacoensis C. centralis C. unicinctus

References

1. Daniel Barasoain; Rodrigo L. Tomassini; Alfredo E. Zurita; Claudia I. Montalvo; Mariella Superina (2020). "A new fairy armadillo (Cingulata, Chlamyphorinae) from the upper Miocene of Argentina: first fossil record of the most enigmatic Xenarthra". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (5) e1716778. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1716778. S2CID   215756214.
2. Moller-Krull, M.; Delsuc, F.; Churakov, G.; Marker, C.; Superina, M.; Brosius, J.; Douzery, E. J. P.; Schmitz, J. (November 2007). "Retroposed Elements and Their Flanking Regions Resolve the Evolutionary History of Xenarthran Mammals (Armadillos, Anteaters, and Sloths)". Mol. Biol. Evol. 24 (11): 2573–2582. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msm201 . PMID   17884827.
3. Gibb, G. C.; Condamine, F. L.; Kuch, M.; Enk, J.; Moraes-Barros, N.; Superina, M.; Poinar, H. N.; Delsuc, F. (2015-11-09). "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. PMC   4760074 . PMID   26556496.
4. Delsuc, F.; Gibb, G. C.; Kuch, M.; Billet, G.; Hautier, L.; Southon, J.; Rouillard, J.-M.; Fernicola, J. C.; Vizcaíno, S. F.; MacPhee, R. D. E.; Poinar, H. N. (2016-02-22). "The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts". Current Biology. 26 (4): R155 –R156. Bibcode:2016CBio...26.R155D. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.039 . hdl: 11336/49579 . PMID   26906483.
5. Upham, Nathan S.; Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Jetz, Walter (2019). "Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution and conservation". PLOS Biol. 17 (12) e3000494. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000494 . PMC   6892540 . PMID   31800571.