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About 30 species of armadillo have been described.

They include:

nine-banded armadillo

northern naked-tailed armadillo

seven-banded armadillo

southern long-nosed armadillo

Llanos long-nosed armadillo

greater long-nosed armadillo

hairy long-nosed armadillo or woolly armadillo

Yepes's mulita

Dasypus bellus or the beautiful armadillo (extinct)

southern three-banded armadillo

Brazilian three-banded armadillo

greater fairy armadillo

screaming hairy armadillo

big hairy armadillo

Andean hairy armadillo

horned armadillo

pink fairy armadillo

six-banded armadillo

Pichi

southern naked-tailed armadillo

Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo

greater naked-tailed armadillo


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