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:
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. |