Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo

  FAMILY -               Dasypodidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Cabassous centralis

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 8

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities     4
  

   - Comments on Status

  3* Cites III (Costa Rica)

  District                                                     Reference

  Toledo                                                               9
  

  

                                                                               
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  16 15' to 16 30'; 88 30' to 88 45'           5
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  2* not shown for Belize

  References

  1  McCarthy, T. J. 1993. Checklist: Mammals of Belize. BAS Newsletter
     25 (2-3).
  
  2  Hall, E. R. 1981. Mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley &
     Sons. New York. 1:282
  
  3  Wilson, D. E., D. M. Reeder. 1993.  Mammal Species of the World, a
     Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second ed. Smithsonian Inst. p.64-65
  
  4  Emmons, L. H. 1990.  Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, a field guide.
     University of Chicago Press.  Chicago and London. p.40-41
  
  5  McCarthy, T. J. 1982.  Chironectes, Cyclopes, Cabassous and probably
     Cebus in Southern Belize. Mammalia 46(3):397-400.
  
  6  Emmons, L. H. 1997.  Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, a field guide.
     University of Chicago Press.  Chicago and London. Second Ed. p.47-48.