East Amazonian Long-nosed Armadillo

About the East Amazonian Long-nosed Armadillo

The East Amazonian long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus beniensis) is a species of armadillo found in the jungles between the Amazon, Madeira, and Madre de Dios rivers in northern Brazil and Bolivia. Specimens of D. beniensis were first recorded in 1937, when on October 25 of that year an adult female (catalog number NRM 583386) was collected by A. M. Olalla from a site 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the confluence of the Rio Madre de Dios with Rio Beni in Victoria, northern Bolivia. It was then taken to the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm where it was later described by Swedish naturalist Einar Lönnberg in 1942 as a subspecies of the previously named species Dasypus kappleri. The name derives from the Rio Beni, where the type specimen had been collected. D. beniensis was later considered a junior synonym of the earlier named species D. pastasae by mammalogist Angel Cabrera in 1948, a sentiment subsequently followed without comment by authors until 2018. The distinct nature of the anatomy of D. beniensis was briefly noted by Feijo & Cordiero-Estrela (2016), but a much more detailed reassessment was published by Feijo and colleagues in 2018 which saw the revalidation... Wikipedia →