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Cahassous centralis (Miller) f* 



1896. X[enurus] liispidus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 18 (1895), p. 345, 



July 8, 1896. (Not of Burmeister, 1854.) 

 1899. Tatoua {Ziphila) centralis Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, 



p. 4, Jan. 31, 1899. 

 1899. C[abassous] centralis Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, 



p. 72, Sept. 28, 1899. 

 Type Locality. — Chamelecon, Cortes, Honduras. Range. — Honduras, Costa 

 Rica (Harris, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan No. 476, p. 14, Oct. 8, 1943; 

 Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 87, p. 350, Dec. 31, 1946), and west- 

 ern Panama to Canal Zone (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 5, 

 p. 68, Apr. 26, 1920). 



Subfamily dasypodinae 



Genus DASYPUS Linnaeus (nine-banded armadillos) 

 1758. Dasypus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 50. (Type, by 

 tautonymy, Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus. For use of Dasypus in place 

 of Tatu Blumenbach, Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, vol. 1, p. 73, 1779, see 

 Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, pt. 1, p. 141, Mar. 22, 1911.) 



Dasypus novemcinctus mexicanus Peters* 



1864. Dasypus novemcinctus var. mexicanus Peters, Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. 



Wiss. Berlin, 1864, p. 180. 

 1905. [Tatu novemcinctum] mexicanum V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 

 25, p. 52, footnote, Oct. 24, 1905. (Type Locality for mexicanus fixed at Co- 

 lima, Mexico. Untenable.) 

 1905. Tatu novemcinctum texanum V. Baileyf, North Amer. Fauna No. 25, 



p. 52, Oct. 24, 1905. (Brownsville, Cameron County, Tex.) 

 1917. Dasypus cucurbitinus Gaumer, Monografia de los mamiferos de Yuca- 

 tan, p. 21. (In synonymy of Dasypus novemcinctus.) 

 1920. D[asypus] novemcinctus mexicanus Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 



vol. 69, No. 5, p. 66, Apr. 24, 1920. 

 Type Locality. — Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (see Hollister, Journ. 

 Mamm., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 60, Feb. 9, 1925). Range. — From Chase and Sumner 

 Counties in southeastern Kansas (Hibbard, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 47, p. 

 87, September 1944) south through northeastern Oklahoma (Blair, Amer. Midi. 

 Nat., vol. 22, No. 1, p. 131, July 1939), Texas (Kalmbach, The armadillo: Its 

 relation to agriculture and game (Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Coram.), map 

 p. 5, 1943), Coahuila and Tamaulipas (Dice, Univ. Michigan Studies, Sci. Ser., 

 vol. 12, p. 256, 1937) to San Luis Potosi, Mexico (J. A. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 8, No. 9, p. 189, March 1891) ; eastward to western Arkansas (Dellin- 

 ger and Black, Journ. Mamm., vol. 21, No. 2, p. 190, May 16, 1940) and Florida 

 parishes east of Mississippi River in Louisiana (Lowery, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. 

 Louisiana State Univ. No. 13, p. 253, Nov. 22, 1943) and southeastern Mississippi 

 (Fitch and Newman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 21-37, Feb. 18, 

 1952) ; and westward to southeastern New Mexico (Taber, Journ. Mamm., vol. 

 20, No. 4, p. 493, Nov. 14, 1939). Armadillos that presumably escaped from 

 captivity recorded in Florida (Sherman, Proc. Florida Acad. Sci., vol. 1 (1936), 



