Authority citation: Krauss, F. 1862. Ueber ein neues Gürtelthier aus Surinam. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 28(1):19-34.
Authority publication link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7160582
Original name as described: Dasypus Kappleri
Nominal names: kappleri Krauss, 1862 | pentadactylus W. C. H. Peters, 1865
Other common names: Greater Long-nosed Armadillo
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Cingulata -- Family: Dasypodidae
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: SMNS 285
Type locality: "den Urwäldern des Marowiniflusses in Surinam" (= primeval forests near the Marowijne River, Suriname).
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Venezuela (VEN) | Guyana (GUY) | Suriname (SUR) | French Guiana (GUF) | Brazil (BRA)
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: Least concern
Species-specific notes: previously included D. beniensis and D. pastasae
Citation: Feijo, A., & Cordeiro-Estrela, P. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the Dasypus kappleri complex, with revalidations of Dasypus pastasae (Thomas, 1901) and Dasypus beniensis Lönnberg, 1942 (Cingulata, Dasypodidae). Zootaxa, 4170(2), 271-297.|Feijo, A., Patterson, B. D., & Cordeiro-Estrela, P. (2018). Taxonomic revision of the long-nosed armadillos, Genus Dasypus Linnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia, Cingulata). PloS one, 13(4), e0195084.|Feijó, A., Vilela, J. F., Cheng, J., Schetino, M. A. A., Coimbra, R. T., Bonvicino, C. R., ... & Cordeiro-Estrela, P. (2019). Phylogeny and molecular species delimitation of long-nosed armadillos (Dasypus: Cingulata) supports morphology-based taxonomy. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 186(3), 813-825.
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