Dasypus Linnaeus, 1758 Dasypus Linnaeus, 1758:50. Type species Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758, by Linnaean tautonomy. Tatus Fermin, 1769:110. Unavailable name (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1963). Tatu Frisch, 1775:table. Unavailable name (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1954). Tatu Blumenbach, 1779:74. Type species Tatu novemcinctus (= Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus) by monotypy. Tatus Olfers, 1818:220. Part; incorrect subsequent spelling of Tatu Blumenbach, 1779. Cataphractus Storr, 1780:40. No species mentioned, name included all armadillos known at that time. Loricatus Desmarest, 1804:28. Part; type species Loricatus niger Desmarest, 1804 (= Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758), by subsequent designation (Wetzel et al. 2008). Tatusia Lesson, 1827:309. Part; type species Dasypus peba Desmarest, 1822 (= Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758), by subsequent designation (Wetzel et al. 2008). Cachicamus McMurtrie, 1831:163. Type species Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation (Wetzel et al. 2008). Cachicama P. Gervais in I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1835:53. Invalid emendation of Cachicamus McMurtrie. Zonoplites Gloger, 1841:114. No species mentioned, name proposed for armadillos with 4 toes on forefeet, the 2 middle toes being longer than the outer toes. © 2016 by American Society of Mammalogists Praopus Burmeister, 1854:295. Type species Dasypus longicaudus Wied-Neuwied, 1826, by monotypy. Cryptophractus Fitzinger, 1856:123. Type species Cryptophractus pilosus Fitzinger, 1856, by monotypy. Hyperoambon W. Peters, 1864:180. Type species Dasypus pentadactylus W. Peters, 1864, by subsequent designation (Wetzel and Mondolfi 1979:56); valid as a subgenus. Muletia Gray, 1874:244. Type species Dasypus septemcinctus: Gray, 1874, by monotypy (= Loricatus hybridus Desmarest, 1804; not Dasypus septemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758). Tatua W. Robinson and Lyon, 1901:161. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Tatu Blumenbach, 1779. Mulletia Yepes, 1928:506. In synonymy; incorrect subsequent spelling of Muletia Gray, 1874. Mulietia Talmage and Buchanan, 1954:80. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Muletia Gray, 1874. CONTEXT AND CONTENT. Order Cingulata, family Dasypodidae, subfamily Dasypodinae, genus Dasypus. Within the genus Dasypus, Wetzel et al. (2008) recognized 7 living species: Dasypus novemcinctus, which occurs both in the Nearctic and the Neotropics; and 6 Neotropical species, D. hybridus, D. kappleri, D. pilosus, D. sabanicola, D. septemcinctus, and D. yepesi. However, Castro et al. (2015) recently suggested that D. pilosus should be reassigned to the genus Cryptophractus Fitzinger, 1856. Synonymy is modified from Wetzel et al. (2008).

Published as part of Abba, AGUSTíN M. & Superina, Mariella, 2016, Dasypus hybridus (Cingulata: Dasypodidae), pp. 10-20 in Mammalian Species 48 (931) on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.1093/mspecies/sew001, http://zenodo.org/record/4573349