Dasypodidae, Gray, 1821

Torres-Porras, Jeronimo, Cobos, Marlon E, Seoane, José Manuel & Aguirre, Nikolay, 2017, Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador, Check List 13 (4), pp. 35-45 : 41

Family Dasypodidae

Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758 : Figure 12 Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus 1758 — Tirira 2007, Loughry et al.

2014.

Material examined: Table 1.

Back covered by a bone armor, generally with nine (possibly 8 to 11) moving bands or rows of osseous plaques in the middle part of the body; the plates are small and of rounded shape, except in the movable bands, where they have the shape of narrow triangles; the head has a shield armored in the forehead, formed by polygonal plates; snout long, narrow and slightly raised at the tip; narrow ears almost touching the base; tail covered with plates, slightly shorter than the head and body combined, with 12 to 15 differentiated rings; forelegs with four toes and hind legs with five ( Tirira 2007).