Andean hairy armadillo

Andean hairy armadillo

Chaetophractus nationi
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Chlamyphoridae
Genus:	Chaetophractus
Species:	C. nationi
Binomial name
*Chaetophractus nationi* (Thomas, 1894)

Andean hairy armadillo range

The Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi) is an armadillo present in Bolivia, in the region of the Puna, the departments of Oruro, La Paz, and Cochabamba (Gardner, 1993). Nowark (1991) describes it as distributed in Bolivia and northern Chile. A recent publication of Pacheco (1995) also locates the species in Peru, basically in Puno Region. It is also thought to be present in northern Argentina.^[1]

References

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1 2 Abba, A., Gomez, H. & Members of the IUCN SSC Edentate Specialist Group (2008). Chaetophractus nationi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 30 December 2008.

Extant Cingulata (Armadillos) species by subfamily

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Infraclass Eutheria
Superorder Xenarthra

Chlamyphorinae

Calyptophractus	Greater fairy armadillo (C. retusus)

Chlamyphorus	Pink fairy armadillo (C. truncatus)

Dasypodinae

Dasypus	Southern long-nosed armadillo (D. hybridus) Greater long-nosed armadillo (D. kappleri) Nine-banded armadillo (D. novemcinctus) Hairy long-nosed armadillo (D. pilosus) Llanos long-nosed armadillo (D. sabanicola) Seven-banded armadillo (D. septemcinctus) Yepes's mulita (Dasypus yepesi)

Euphractinae

Chaetophractus	Andean hairy armadillo (C. nationi) Screaming hairy armadillo (C. vellerosus) Big hairy armadillo (C. villosus)

Euphractus	Six-banded armadillo (E. sexcinctus)

Zaedyus	Pichi (Z. pichiy)

Tolypeutinae

Cabassous	Northern naked-tailed armadillo (C. centralis) Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo (C. chacoensis) Greater naked-tailed armadillo (C. tatouay) Southern naked-tailed armadillo (C. unicinctus)

Priodontes	Giant armadillo (P. maximus)

Tolypeutes	Southern three-banded armadillo (T. matacus) Brazilian three-banded armadillo (T. tricinctus)

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