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Cabassous

Cabassous
Cabassous chacoensis eating.jpg
Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Chlamyphoridae
Genus: Cabassous
McMurtrie, 1831
Type species
Dasypus unicinctus
Species

Cabassous is a genus of South and Central American armadillos. The name is the Latinised form of the Kalini word for "armadillo".

The genus contains the following four species:



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