Dasypus

Dasypus
Dasypus[1]
Dasypus novemcinctus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Dasypodidae
Subfamily: Dasypodinae
Gray, 1821
Genus: Dasypus
Linnaeus, 1758
Species
  • Dasypus novemcinctus
  • Dasypus septemcinctus
  • Dasypus hybridus
  • Dasypus sabanicola
  • Dasypus kappleri
  • Dasypus pilosus
  • Dasypus yepesi
  • Dasypus bellus

Dasypus is a genus of armadillo in the Dasypodidae family. It is the only genus in the subfamily Dasypodinae and contains the following species:

References

  1. ^ Gardner, Alfred (16 November 2005). Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 94-95. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.