Cabassous

Cabassous is a genus of South and Central American armadillos.^[1] The name is the Latinised form of the Kalini word for "armadillo".^[2]

Cabassous
Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:	Tolypeutinae
Genus:	Cabassous McMurtrie, 1831
Type species
Dasypus unicinctus Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Cabassous centralis Cabassous chacoensis Cabassous tatouay Cabassous unicinctus

Cladogram of living Cabassous^[3]

Cabassous	C. tatouay C. chacoensis C. centralis C. unicinctus

The genus contains the following four species:^[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	C. centralis	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	southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and Uruguay and extreme north-eastern Argentina
	C. unicinctus	Southern naked-tailed armadillo	northern South America east of the Andes, as far south as northern Paraguay and southern Brazil.