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Priodontes maximus
Description
Priodontes maximus (Kerr, 1792), Giant Armadillo
Records. Recorded by opportunistic sightings (09° 07.632′S, 068°06.230′W) and hunting interviews.
Identification. Its carapace is highly flexible, with 11–13 moveable bands. Hair is sparse. The body is dark brown, except for the head and tail and for a light-colored stripe around the edges of the body. The tail is long, narrow, and covered with small pentagonal scales (Carter et al. 2016).
Notes
Published as part of Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, pp. 127-136 in Check List 16 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.15560/16.1.127
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- Journal article: 10.15560/16.1.127 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC5FFE9A02DF14AFFC08A38A64E3B35 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dasypodidae
- Genus
- Priodontes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cingulata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Kerr
- Species
- maximus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Priodontes maximus (Kerr, 1792) sec. Oliveira & Calouro, 2020
References
- Carter TS, Superina M, Leslie DMJ (2016) Priodontes maximus (Cingulata: Chlamyphoridae). Mammalian Species 48 (932): 21 - 34. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / mspecies / sew 002