East Amazonian long-nosed armadillo

East Amazonian long-nosed armadillo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Dasypodidae
Genus: Dasypus
Species:
D. beniensis
Binomial name
Dasypus beniensis
(Lönnberg, 1942)
Synonyms
  • Dasypus kappleri beniensis Lönnberg, 1942

The East Amazonian long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus beniensis) is a species of armadillo found in the jungles between the Amazon, Madeira, and Madre de Dios rivers in northern Brazil and Bolivia.[1][2]

  1. ^ Feijó, Anderson; Patterson, Bruce D.; Cordeiro-Estrela, Pedro (2018-04-06). "Taxonomic revision of the long-nosed armadillos, Genus Dasypus Linnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia, Cingulata)". PLOS ONE. 13 (4): e0195084. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1395084F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195084. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5889077. PMID 29624590.
  2. ^ Feijo, A., & Cordeiro-Estrela, P. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the Dasypus kappleri complex, with revalidations of Dasypus pastasae (Thomas, 1901) and Dasypus beniensis Lönnberg, 1942 (Cingulata, Dasypodidae). Zootaxa, 4170(2), 271-297.