Giant Armadillo
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| Armadillo raksasa | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Dasypodidae |
| Subfamily: | Tolypeutinae |
| Genus: | Priodontes F. Cuvier, 1825 |
| Species: | P. maximus |
| Binomial name | |
| Priodontes maximus (Kerr, 1792) |
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The Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus), colloquially Tatou, Ocarro, Tatu-canastra or Tatú Carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo. It was once found widely throughout the tropical forests of eastern South America and now ranges throughout varied habitat as far south as northern Argentina.
