Priodontes F. Cuvier, 1825 Dasypus: Kerr, 1792:112. Part; not Dasypus Linnaeus, 1758. Loricatus Desmarest, 1804:28. Part (see “Nomenclatural Notes”). Tatus Olfers, 1818:220. Part; incorrect subsequent spelling of Tatu Blumenbach, 1779. Priodontes F. Cuvier, 1825:257. Type species Dasypus gigas G. Cuvier, 1817, by monotypy. Cheloniscus Wagler, 1830:35. Types species Dasypus gigas G. Cuvier, 1817, by monotypy. Priodon McMurtrie, 1831:164. Type species Dasypus gigas G. Cuvier, 1817, by monotypy; proposed as a subgenus of Dasypus; preoccupied by Priodon Quay and Gaimard, 1824 (Pisces, Osteichthyes). Polygomphius Gloger, 1841:114. Type species Dasypus gigas G. Cuvier, 1817, by monotypy. Prionodon Gray, 1843:xxvii. Nomen nudum. Priodonta Gray, 1843:xxvii. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Priodontes F. Cuvier, 1825. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of American Society of Mammalogists, 2016.This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US. Prionodontes Schinz, 1845:312. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Priodontes F. Cuvier, 1825. Prionodos Gray, 1865:374. Replacement name for Priodontes F. Cuvier, 1825. Periodontes Altrichter, 2006:2729. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Priodontes F. Cuvier, 1825. CONTEXT AND CONTENT. Order Cingulata, family Chlamyphoridae, subfamily Tolypeutinae, tribe Priodontini. Priodontes is monotypic; synonymy was reformatted from Wetzel et al. (2008).

Published as part of Carter, Tracy S., Superina, Mariella & Leslie, David M., 2016, Priodontes maximus (Cingulata: Chlamyphoridae), pp. 21-34 in Mammalian Species 48 (932) on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.1093/mspecies/sew002, http://zenodo.org/record/4573372