A new record of the Armadillo Chaetophractus vellerosus (Gray, 1865) (Mammalia, Dasypodidae) in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentine: Possible Causes for the Disjunct Distribution

CARLINI, A.A.; VIZCAÍNO, S.F.

STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Lugar: Londres; Año: 1987 p. 53 - 56

0165-0521

Specimens of Chaetophractus vellerosus are recorded for the first time in Eastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. This occurrence is interpreted as a relict of a wider distribution resulting from different climatic conditions during the Late Pleistocene and part of the Holocene. Recent soil conditions and physiologic adaption could be responsible of this disjunctive distribution.