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Overview:

Conservation Status

History:

• 1996-Data Deficient (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Threats:

• 12 Unknown (ongoing)

For info on these threat codes, see here.

Justification

This species is Data Deficient due to poor knowledge of potential threats and little information on the status of extant populations. The species is widespread geographically, and is known to occur in a variety of habitats. However, there is not enough information available on how habitat loss and other threats affect the species.

Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 21-Apr-2004

Physical Description

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Distribution

Range and Population

Middle America; South America

Habitat

Biome

Terrestrial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cabassous:

There are approximately 5 species and subspecies in this genus: C. centralis (Northern Naked-Tailed Armadillo) · C. chacoensis (Chacoan Naked-Tailed Armadillo) · C. tatouay (Greater Naked-Tailed Armadillo) · C. unicinctus (Cabasu) · C. unicinctus loricatus

Bibliography

• Alberico, M., Cadena, A. Hernández-Camacho, J. and Muñoz-Saba, Y. 2000. Mamíferos (Synapsida: Theria) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 1: 43 and ndash;75.
• Albuja, L. 1991. Lista de vertebrados del Ecuador. Escuela Politécnica XVI: 163 and ndash;203.
• Alfred L. Gardner: Status: CITES - Appendix III (Costa Rica)
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Cadena, A., Anderson, R.P. and Rivas-Pava, P. 1998. Colombian mammals from the chocoan slopes of Nariño. Occasional Papers from the Museum of Texas Tech Univerisity 180: 1 and ndash;15.
• Emmons, L.H. and Feer, F. 1998. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, Second Edition. A Field Guide. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Gardner, A.L. 1993. Order Xenarthra. In: D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds) Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second Edition. pp: 63 and ndash;68. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
• Gardner, A.L. 2005. Order Cingulata. In: D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds) Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Third Edition. pp: 94 and ndash;99. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• Reid, F.A. 1997. A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Tirira, D. 1999. Mamíferos del Ecuador. Publicación especial Nº 2, Museo de Zoología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
• Wetzel, R.M. 1982. Systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation of South American edentates. In: M.A. Mares and H.H. Genoways (eds) Mammalian Biology in South America pp: 345 and ndash;375. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
• Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds) 1993. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• Lara-Ruiz, P., Samudio, R. and members of the Edentate Specialist Group 2006. Cabassous centralis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 14 January 2007.

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNMA/Coleccion Nacional de Mamiferos
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Mammal specimens

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 624891
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 540333
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2640