Chlamyphoridae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Cingulata
- Family
- Chlamyphoridae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Chlamyphoridae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chlamyphoridae
Chlamyphoridae is a family of cingulate mammals. While glyptodonts have traditionally been considered stem-group cingulates outside the group that contains modern armadillos, there had been speculation that the extant family Dasypodidae could be paraphyletic based on morphological evidence. In 2016, an analysis of Doedicurus mtDNA found it was, in fact, nested within the modern armadillos as the sister group of a clade consisting of Chlamyphorinae and Tolypeutinae. For this reason, all extant armadillos but Dasypus were relocated to a new family. The scientific name comes from Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús), "cloak", and φόρος (phóros), "bearing".
...Chlamyphoridae in languages:
- Arabic
- مدرعات متدثرة وأشباهها
- Bokmål
- Kortsnutebeltedyrfamilien
- English
- Short-nosed Armadillos
- German
- Kurznasengürteltieren
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