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Giant Armadillo

Educational resources on Giant Armadillo

Giant Armadillo or Priodontes maximus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A1cd. IUCN Profile of the Giant Armadillo

Academic web links for the Giant Armadillo. You can submit additional web links for the Giant Armadillo using the form below.


ADW: Priodontes maximus: Information: Mammalia Order Xenarthra Family Dasypodidae Subfamily Dasypodinae Species Priodontes maximus. Priodontes maximus (giant armadillo). ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Priodontes_maximus.html

ADW: Xenarthra: Pictures: Myrmecophaga tridactyla. giant armadillo Priodontes maximus, giant armadillo Priodontes maximus, northern tamandua Tamandua mexicana. southern ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Xenarthra_0015.html

Armadillo Online!: Most armadillos also eat plants, and some species — like the giant armadillo — can cause quite a bit of agricultural damage if they happen to wander into a ...
http://www.msu.edu/~nixonjos/armadillo/

Genus Priodontes: Armadillo logo Genus Priodontes. Giant armadillo: one species. P. maximus. Priodontes maximus. Giant Armadillo. Range. South ...
http://www.msu.edu/~nixonjos/armadillo/priodontes.html

A Pleistocene Bestiary: Glyptodon. Common Name: Giant Armadillo. ... Distribution of Giant Armadillo (Gylptodon sp.) in South America During the Wurm/Weichsel/Wisconsin Fullglacial. ...
http://id-archserve.ucsb.edu/Anth3/Courseware/Pleistocene/6_Bestiary.html

Armadillo Biogeography: This in turn contributed to the extinction and the migration of the giant armadillo (Dasypus bellus) out of South America towards North America. ...
http://bss.sfsu.edu/geog/bholzman/courses/fall99projects/armadillo.htm

Nicholas School -- News & Events - current duke news releases: ...“Habitat Use and Activity of the Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus): Preliminary Data from Southeastern Peru� – A team headed by research associate ...
http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-scbmeeting.html

Introduction to the Xenarthra: ...still often referred to as edentates, a word that means "toothless." Although xenarthrans such as anteaters are indeed toothless, the giant armadillo has as ...
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/xenarthra.html

MSL, Order Xenartha: T Carter Priodontes maximus - Giant armadillo - South America; 831 Ventral view of individual held by person. Parna, Serra da Canastra, Brazil, 1980. ...
http://www.emporia.edu/biosci/msl/xenart.htm



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