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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.
Giant armadillo: Priodontes maximus: South America: E Pink fairy armadillo: Chlamyphorus truncatus: Argentina: E African wild ass: Equus africanus: Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia: E Asian wild ass Equus hemionus: Southwestern and Central Asia: E Avahi (woolly lemur) Avahi sp. Malagasy Republic (Madagascar) E Aye-aye: Daubentonia madagascariensis
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.
Pink fairy armadillo Pisces is the sign of the whimsical, the fantastical and the hard to believe, and there is perhaps no creature on this list more evocative of that whimsy than the impossibly ...
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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.
Critically endangered: The species is in imminent risk of extinction in the wild. EN: Endangered: ... Greater fairy armadillo, Chlamyphorus retusus NT; Genus: Euphractus.
Chlamyphorinae is a subfamily of South American armadillos in the family Chlamyphoridae. Members of this subfamily, the fairy armadillos, are largely fossorial and have reduced eyes and robust forearms with large claws for digging.