Cabassous


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:
ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
C. centralisNorthern naked-tailed armadillofrom Chiapas in southern Mexico to western Colombia, northwestern Ecuador and northwestern Venezuela
C. chacoensisChacoan naked-tailed armadillothe Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay and north-central Argentina
C. tatouayGreater naked-tailed armadillosouthern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and Uruguay and extreme north-eastern Argentina
C. unicinctusSouthern naked-tailed armadillonorthern South America east of the Andes, as far south as northern Paraguay and southern Brazil.