Authority citation: Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or Zoological System of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus. Class I. Mammalia. A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 462 pp.
Authority publication link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664132
Original name as described: Dasypus maximus
Nominal names: maximus (Kerr, 1792) | giganteus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803) | grandis (Illiger, 1815) [nomen nudum] | gigas (G. Cuvier, 1816) | gigans (Schmid, 1818) | grandis (I. von Olfers, 1818) | maximus (Larrañaga, 1923) [preoccupied]
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Cingulata -- Family: Chlamyphoridae -- Subfamily: Tolypeutinae
Type locality: "Cayenne," French Guiana.
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Colombia (COL) | Venezuela (VEN) | Guyana (GUY) | Suriname (SUR) | French Guiana (GUF) | Brazil (BRA) | Ecuador (ECU) | Peru (PER) | Bolivia (BOL) | Paraguay (PRY) | Argentina (ARG)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is listed in MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status: Vulnerable
Species-specific notes: moved from Dasypodidae to Chlamyphoridae
Citation: Gibb, G. C., Condamine, F. L., Kuch, M., Enk, J., Moraes-Barros, N., Superina, M., ... & Delsuc, F. (2016). Shotgun mitogenomics provides a reference phylogenetic framework and timescale for living xenarthrans. Molecular biology and evolution, 33(3), 621-642.
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