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Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus). Cingulata is an order of armored placental mammals.Members of this order are called cingulates, or colloquially, armadillos.They are primarily found in South America, though the northern naked-tailed armadillo is found mainly in Central America and the nine-banded armadillo has a range extending into North America.
Red: anteater, yellow: armadillo, blue: sloth, orange: both anteater and armadillo, green: both armadillo and sloth, purple: anteater, armadillo and sloth Xenarthra ( / z ɛ ˈ n ɑːr θ r ə / ; from Ancient Greek ξένος , xénos, "foreign, alien" + ἄρθρον , árthron, "joint") is a major clade of placental mammals native to the ...
Cingulata (from Latin cingulāta, meaning "the girdled ones"), [1] 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. [2]
A video shows a rare sighting of armadillo quadruplets in Texas. Here are 8 fun facts about the species that you probably don't know. ... An armadillo's lifespan varies from seven to 20 years ...
The class Mammalia is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: monotremes, which lay eggs, and therians, mammals which give live birth, which has two infraclasses: marsupials/metatherians and placentals/eutherians.
Screaming hairy armadillo: Central and southern parts of South America Chaetophractus villosus: Big hairy armadillo: The Pampas and Patagonia as far south as Santa Cruz, Argentina and Magallanes, Chile Chaetophractus nationi: Andean hairy armadillo
A video taken in Utah over the weekend captured a rare, mesmerizing weather occurrence known as a "snownado." According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and The Weather Channel, a ...
Northern naked-tailed armadillo: from Chiapas in southern Mexico to western Colombia, northwestern Ecuador and northwestern Venezuela C. chacoensis: Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo: the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay and north-central Argentina C. tatouay: Greater naked-tailed armadillo