Andean Hairy Armadillo

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Andean Hairy Armadillo
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Dasypodidae
Genus: Chaetophractus
Species: C. nationi
Binomial name
Chaetophractus nationi
(Thomas, 1894)

The Andean Hairy Armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi) is an armadillo present in Bolivia, in the region of the Puna, the departments of Oruro, La Paz, and Cochabamba (Gardner, 1993). Nowark (1991) describes it as distributed in Bolivia and the northern Chile. A recent publication of Pacheco et al (1995) also locates the species in Peru.

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  1. ^ Abba, A., Gomez, H. & members of the Edentate Specialist Group (2006). Chaetophractus nationi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2006-11-14]].
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