Hollowtail armadillos [2] ( Latin Cabassous ) is a genus of armadillos from South and Central America. The Latin name is the Latinized form of the Caribbean word "battleship" [3] .
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Types
The genus includes 4 species:
- Cabassous centralis - Central American battleship
- Cabassous chacoensis - Chuck battleship
- Cabassous tatouay - Armadillo tattoo [4]
- Cabassous unicinctus - Large battleship
Notes
- ↑ Wilson DE & Reeder DM (eds). Mammal Species of the World . - 3rd ed. - , 2005. - Vol. 1. - P. 743. - ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 . OCLC 62265494 .
- ↑ Sokolov V. Ye. The five-language dictionary of animal names. Mammals. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V.E. Sokolova. - M .: Rus. lang, 1984. - pp. 27-28. - 10 000 copies
- ↑ Hayssen, V. Cabassous unicinctus (Eng.) // Mammalian Species . - American Society of Mammalogists , 2014. - Vol. 46 , no. 907 P. 16-23 . - DOI : 10.1644 / 907 .
- Full illustrated encyclopedia. "Mammals" Kn. 2 = The New Encyclopedia of Mammals / ed. D. Macdonald . - M .: Omega, 2007. - p. 436. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-465-01346-8 .