Dasypus novemcinctus (large mammal)

Mass: 4.4 kg based on Morgan and Loughry 2009, Sanderson 1949, and Richard-Hansen et al. 1999

Diet: invertivore based on Redford 1986 and Sikes et al. 1990

Abundance: 0.16 to 31.76% (median 3.86%)

Latitudinal range: -31.2° to 38.8°

Habitats: (5), desert/xeric shrubland (2), mangrove (2), montane grassland (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (3), temperate savanna (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (20), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (28), tropical/subtropical savanna (7)

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Found in 69 samples

Argentina: Iguazù National Park (on roads)

Bolivia: Santa Rosa (control)

Brazil: Fazenda Sta Emília (acurí forest), Caxiuanä National Forest (March), Fazenda Cauaia (camera trapping), Estação Biológica de Santa Lùcia (primary forest), Estrada do Porto (2005), Tapiraí and Piedade Municipalities, Serra do Japi Biological Reserve (2006/2007), Serra do Japi Biological Reserve (2009/2010), Floresta Nacional Amapâ (dry season), Humaitâ Forest Reserve, Augusto Ruschi Biological Reserve, Ibicuí River, Quedas do Rio Bonito Ecological Park (camera trapping), Una and Arataca (forest), Una and Arataca (cabruca), Iguaçu National Park, Purus Project, Formosa Military Training Area, Private Reserve of Natural Heritage Recanto das Antas, Reserva Ecológica Michelin (floresta), Terra do Meio Ecological Station I, Terra do Meio Ecological Station II, Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Land I, Lapa do Santo (Early Holocene) (Holocene), Lapa do Santo (Middle Holocene) (Holocene)

Colombia: Parque Nacional Natural Farallones de Cali (forest), Parque Nacional Natural Farallones de Cali (scrub), Palmar de Altamira (bosque), Palmar de Altamira (palmar 2009), Palmar de Altamira (palmar 2011-2012), Otùn Quimbaya Flora and Fauna Sanctuary (2009), Otùn Quimbaya Flora and Fauna Sanctuary (2010-1), Otùn Quimbaya Flora and Fauna Sanctuary (2011), Aguazuque Occupation 1 (Holocene)

Costa Rica: San Juan-La Selva Biological Corridor, Pacuare Nature Reserve, Piedras Blancas National Park

Ecuador: Chorongo, Refugio de Vida Silvestre Marina y Costera Pacoche

Honduras: Rio Sikre

Mexico: La Reserva Natural Sierra Nanchititla, Estación Científica Las Joyas, Tolistoque (dry season), Tolistoque (rainy season), Abra-Tanchipa Biosphere Reserve (survey 1), Pico de Orizaba National Park, Pastorías (lluvias), Pastorías (secas), Reserva de la Biosfera La Encrucijada (secas), Reserva de la Biosfera La Encrucijada (lluvias), Xalapa, Sierra Region (secondary forest), Sierra Region (oil palm), Santa Marta rock-shelter (Holocene)

Panama: Ecoparque Panama

Paraguay: Isla Alta

Peru: Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2005), Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2006), Ichigkat Muja - Cordillera del Cóndor National Park (2018), Ichigkat Muja - Cordillera del Cóndor National Park (2019)

United States: Kleberg County, Daniel Boone Field Station (riparian), Student Agricultural Gardens, Slaton Quarry (Middle Pleistocene)

Uruguay: Rivera (gallery forest), Rivera (plantation), Rivera (grassland)

Size measurements:
♀ body mass4200 kgN = 22Morgan and Loughry 2009
♀ body mass4030 kgN = 103Morgan and Loughry 2009
♀ body mass5270 kgN = 3Sanderson 1949
♂ body mass4350 kgN = 10Morgan and Loughry 2009
♂ body mass4190 kgN = 107Morgan and Loughry 2009
♂ body mass3468 kgN = 3Sanderson 1949
body mass5030 kgN = 141Richard-Hansen et al. 1999
♀ ear length49 mmN = 3Sanderson 1949
♂ ear length48 mmN = 3Sanderson 1949
ear length52 mmN = 141Richard-Hansen et al. 1999
♀ head and body length538 mmN = 3Sanderson 1949
♂ head and body length407 mmN = 3Sanderson 1949
head and body length460 mmN = 141Richard-Hansen et al. 1999
♀ hind foot length91 mmN = 3Sanderson 1949
♂ hind foot length84 mmN = 3Sanderson 1949
hind foot length98 mmN = 141Richard-Hansen et al. 1999
♀ tail length432 mmN = 3Sanderson 1949
♂ tail length360 mmN = 3Sanderson 1949
tail length382 mmN = 141Richard-Hansen et al. 1999

See also Dasypus, Dasypus bellus, Dasypus hybridus, Dasypus kappleri, Dasypus sp., Dasypus spp.