Cabassous unicinctus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CINGULATA	DASYPODIDAE

Scientific Name:

Cabassous unicinctus

Species Authority

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/s:

English	–	Cabasu, Southern Naked-tailed Armadillo
Spanish	–	Cabasu De Orejas Largas

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s

Cuellar, E. & Members of the IUCN SSC Edentate Specialist Group

Evaluator/s:

da Fonseca, G.A.B. (Edentate Red List Authority) & Berridge, R. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Justification:
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, its occurrence in a number of protected areas, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

History:

2006	–	Least Concern (IUCN 2006)
1996	–	Lower Risk/least concern (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This South American species is found east of the Andes from northern Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, through to Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname in the north to the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, in the south (Gardner 2005).
Countries:	Native: Bolivia; Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; French Guiana; Guyana; Peru; Suriname; Venezuela
Range Map:	(click map to view full version)

Population [top]

Population:	It is a relatively common species.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabits tropical lowland and submontane forest. Although it is not found in agricultural areas it possibly occurs in secondary forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	There are no major threats to this species. Populations in the south of the range are subject to a degree of hunting and habitat loss (e.g. Machado et al. 1998; Aguiar and Fonseca 2008).

Major Threat(s):

There are no major threats to this species. Populations in the south of the range are subject to a degree of hunting and habitat loss (e.g. Machado et al. 1998; Aguiar and Fonseca 2008).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	It is present in many protected areas.

Conservation Actions:

It is present in many protected areas.

Citation:	Cuellar, E. & Members of the IUCN SSC Edentate Specialist Group 2008. Cabassous unicinctus. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 November 2008.
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