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The greater fairy armadillo is a small species, growing to a length of from 140 to 175 millimetres (5.5 to 6.9 in) with a tail about 35 millimetres (1.4 in) long and weighing up to a kilogram (2.2 lb). Like other armadillos it has bands of armour on its dorsal (upper) surface but, in common with the pink fairy armadillo Chlamyphorus truncatus ...
Calyptophractus, greater fairy armadillo; Chlamyphorus, pink fairy armadillo; Phylogeny. Chlamyphorinae is the sister group of Tolypeutinae (giant, three-banded and naked-tailed armadillos), as shown below.
The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) is the smallest species of armadillo, first described by Richard Harlan in 1825. [3] This solitary, desert-adapted animal is endemic to the deserts and scrub lands of central Argentina. [4] The pink fairy armadillo is closely related to the only other fairy armadillo, the greater fairy armadillo.
Taxidermied pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus)Chlamyphoridae is a family of cingulate mammals. While glyptodonts have traditionally been considered stem-group cingulates outside the group that contains modern armadillos, there had been speculation that the extant family Dasypodidae could be paraphyletic based on morphological evidence.
The giant armadillo grows up to 150 cm (59 in) and weighs up to 54 kg (119 lb), while the pink fairy armadillo has a length of only 13–15 cm (5–6 in). When threatened by a predator, Tolypeutes species frequently roll up into a ball; they are the only species of armadillo capable of this.
Family Chlamyphoridae – fairy armadillos, giant armadillos, and more Subfamily Chlamyphorinae – fairy armadillos Genus Calyptophractus – greater fairy armadillo; Genus Chlamyphorus – pink fairy armadillo; Subfamily Euphractinae. Genus Chaetophractus – hairy armadillo; Genus Euphractus – six-banded armadillo; Genus Zaedyus – pichi ...
Hoffmann's two-toed sloth Brown-throated sloth Nine-banded armadillo Giant anteater Giant armadillo. XENARTHRA. Order Cingulata. Family Chlamyphoridae: armadillos and glyptodonts. Greater fairy armadillo, Calyptophractus retusus; Pink fairy armadillo, Chlamyphorus truncatus; Northern naked-tailed armadillo, Cabassous centralis
Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra, is an order of armored New World placental mammals. Dasypodids and chlamyphorids, the armadillos, are the only surviving families in the order. [1] Two groups of cingulates much larger than extant armadillos (maximum body mass of 45 kg (100 lb) in the case of the giant armadillo [2]) existed until ...