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Overview:

Conservation Status

History:

• 1996-Lower Risk/least concern (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Threats:

• 0 No threats (ongoing)

For info on these threat codes, see here.

Justification

Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, its occurrence in a number of protected areas, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

Taxonomy

Notes:

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

Physical Description

Distribution

Range and Population

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

Members of the genus Aster:

There are approximately 2,350 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: A. lanceolatus hesperius · A. oregonensis oregonensis · A. 'Amor' · A. 'Anja's Choice' · A. 'Bahamas' · A. 'Barbados' · A. 'Barbara Worl' · A. 'Barge' · A. 'Blue Moon' · A. 'Cassandra' · A. 'Cassy' · A. 'Cha-Cha' · A. 'Chelsea' · A. 'Cinderella' · A. 'Cindy Special' · A. 'Cirina Dark' · A. 'Claudia' · A. 'Climax' · A. 'Connecticut Snow Flurry' · A. 'Coombe Fishacre' · A. 'Cotswold Gem' · A. 'Dame Blanche' · A. 'Danasdian' · A. 'Danasplum' · A. 'Dark Milka' · A. 'Dark Pink Star' · A. 'Dasfour' · A. 'Deep Pink Star' · A. 'Desire' · A. 'Early Blue' · A. 'Eclipse' · A. 'Evita' · A. 'Fanny's Fall' · A. 'Flora Perry' · A. 'Freja Viking' · A. 'Graham Dorrity' · A. 'Herfstweelde' · A. 'Hittlemaar' · A. 'Hon. Vicary Gibbs' · A. 'Karmijn Milka' · A. 'Kylie' · A. 'Little Carlow' · A. 'Little Dorrit' · A. 'Loke Viking' · A. 'Mc Snowy' · A. 'Midget' · A. 'Moercass' · A. 'Moercassino' · A. 'Moercin' · A. 'Moerido' · A. 'Mrs Chas Wilson' · A. 'Mrs Pierpont Morgan' · A. 'Noreen' · A. 'Ochtendgloren' · A. 'Odin Viking' · A. 'Oktoberlicht' · A. 'Orchidee' · A. 'Orpheus' · A. 'Paquita' · A. 'Patricia Viking' · A. 'Pearl Star' · A. 'Peter's White' · A. 'Photograph' · A. 'Pink Cassino' · A. 'Pink Milka' · A. 'Pink Pearl' · A. 'Pink Star' · A. 'Pixie Dark Eye' · A. 'Pixie Red Eye' · A. 'Plowden's Pink' · A. 'Poollicht' · A. 'Prairie Lavender' · A. 'Prairie Pink' · A. 'Prairie Violet' · A. 'Primrose Path' · A.'Professor Anton Kippenberg' (Professor Anton Kippenberg Aster) · A. 'Purple Viking' · A. 'Ringdove' · A. 'Rosa Star' · A. 'Samoa' · A. 'Serendipity' · A. 'Snow Drift' · A. 'Snow Flurry' · A. 'Snow Star' · A. 'Star Violet' · A. 'Star White' · A. 'Suncarlo' · A. 'Sungal' · A. 'Sunhelene' · A. 'Sunmarie' · A. 'Sunqueen' · A. 'Sunrio' · A. 'Sunsky' · A. 'Sunspring' · A. 'Thyra Viking' · A. 'Triumph' · A. 'VA.ival' · A. 'White Climax' · A. 'White Prestige' · A. 'Wood's Pink'

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.
• Anderson, S. 1997. Mammals of Bolivia: Taxonomy and distribution. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. No. 231. New York.
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Emmons, L.H. and Feer, F. 1998. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, Second Edition. A Field Guide. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Engstrom, M., and Lim, B. 2000. Checklist of the mammals of Guyana. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
• 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.
• Pacheco, V., de Macedo, H., Vivar, E., Ascorra, C.F., Arana-Cardó, R. and Solari, S. 1995. Lista anotada de los mamíferos peruanos. Occasional Papers in Conservation Biology 2:1-35.
• Thiere Brasiliens, p. 287
• 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.
• Cuellar, E. and members of the Edentate Specialist Group 2006. Cabassous unicinctus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 14 January 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 13, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 13, 2008:

• Field Museum: Mammal specimens
• GBIF-Sweden: Mammals (NRM)
• Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science: Mammal specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: P. V. Lund collection in ZMUC, Copenhagen

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 624894
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13816709
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2643