Euphractus sexcinctus

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Six-banded Armadillo

Oblique view of head and claws of forefoot. Also as Yellow Armadillo.
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Location:Brazil, Minas Gerais, Serra da Canastra National ParkDate taken:Jan 1, 1980

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 741

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Atlantogenata
Superorder : Xenarthra
Order : Cingulata
Superfamily : Dasypodoidea
Family : Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily : Euphractinae
Genus : Euphractus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Linnaeus, C. 1758-01-01. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 823 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25033862

Original name as described

Dasypus sexcinctus

Other common names

Yellow Armadillo

Type material

NHRM (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"in America Meridionali." Restricted by O. Thomas in 1907 to Pará, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Suriname · Brazil · Paraguay · Uruguay · Bolivia · Argentina

Taxonomy notes

moved from Dasypodidae to Chlamyphoridae

Taxonomy notes citation

Gibb, G.C., Condamine, F.L., Kuch, M., Enk, J., Moraes-Barros, N., Superina, M., Poinar, H.N. and Delsuc, F. 2016. 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

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000412

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 24 names and synonyms.

Dasypus sexcinctus

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

sexcinctus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

NHRM (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

51

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25033862

Authority publication

Stockholm

Name usages

  1. Linnaeus (1758:51, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25033862) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57429)
  2. Linnaeus (1766:54, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946250) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38438)
  3. Erxleben (1777:105, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15872902) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36060)
  4. Borowski (1780:61, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28346929) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67756)
  5. Zimmermann (1783:179) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69242)
  6. Boddaert (1785:73, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28230037) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35384)
  7. Gmelin (1788:55, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25751275) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35943)
  8. Kerr (1792:109, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664129) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36283)
  9. André (1795:95) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37443)
  10. Wolf (1796:77) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72410)
  11. Shaw (1800:189, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41150906) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37615)
  12. Daudin (1802:173, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42033423) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64044)
  13. Turton (1802:33, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25772870) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69249)
  14. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803:208) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19153)
  15. Fischer (1803:132, 333, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47061739, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47061942) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69311)
  16. Fischer (1803:333, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47061942) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69311)
  17. Goldfuss (1809:313, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47498147) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34654)
  18. Schinz (1821:330, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51529091) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  19. Harlan (1825:242, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15913427) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67440)
  20. Schinz (1825:433, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51523850) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66129)
  21. Rengger (1830:286) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68767)
  22. Blyth (1840:125, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49918339) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67419)
  23. Smith (1842:297) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67141)
  24. Rapp (1852:7, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44804624) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38709)
  25. Turner (1853:214, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680476) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38715)
  26. Giebel (1855:419, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45548610) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38563)
  27. Gray (1865:375, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28497330) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37250)
  28. Murray (1866:342, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580338) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  29. Gray (1869:381, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8397300) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37331)
  30. Sclater (1872:110, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17037887) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61617)
  31. Gray (1873:18, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13237161) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38716)
  32. Lahille (1899:204, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35147070) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37834)
  33. Thomas (1901:536, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29980614) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/10083)
  34. Trouessart (1905:820, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423701) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59290)
  35. Boule & Thevenin (1920:210, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22698985) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68327)

loricatus flavimanus

(A. G. Desmarest, 1804)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

flavimanus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

28

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57784631

Authority publication

Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle

Name usages

Muirhead (1819:447) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69481)

Dasypus flavipes

(G. Fischer, 1814)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

flavipes

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

ix, 122

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130070 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130207

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

  1. Fischer (1814:ix, 122, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130070, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130207) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/12226)
  2. Gardner (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9690)

Dasypus gilvipes

(Illiger, 1815)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

gilvipes

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

108

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080964

Authority publication

Abhandlungen der physikalischen Klasse der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Name usages

Illiger (1815:108, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080964) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38688)

Dasypus gilvipes

(H. Lichtenstein, 1818)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

gilvipes

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

215

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11079865

Authority publication

Abhandlungen der physikalischen Klasse der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Name usages

Gardner (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9690)

Tatus gilvipes

(I. von Olfers, 1818)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

gilvipes

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

220

Authority publication

Weimar

Name usages

Olfers (1818:220) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38523)

Dasypus pilosus

(I. von Olfers, 1818)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

pilosus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

220

Authority publication

Weimar

Dasypus depressus

(Ranzani, 1820)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

depressus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

488

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27808068

Authority publication

Bologna

Name usages

Ranzani (1820:488, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27808068) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69425)

dasypus encoubert

(A. G. Desmarest, 1822)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

encoubert

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

370

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39521814

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Desmarest (1822:370, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39521814) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36189)
  2. Lesson (1827:307, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207774) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  3. Fischer (1829:390) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  4. Waterhouse (1838:62) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/41198)
  5. Cuvier (1842:4, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44518527) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60227)
  6. Lesson (1842:149) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  7. Gardner (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9690)

Dasypus setosus

(zu Wied-Neuwied, 1826)

Family

Chlamyphoridae

Root name

setosus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Authority page

520

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32972568

Authority publication

Weimar

Name usages

Goeldi & Hagmann (1904:97, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41783279) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37832)

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