Mammalia - Xenarthra

Alternative spellings: Dasipidae, Dasypidae

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310

Parent taxon: Cingulata according to T. J. Gaudin 1995

Sister taxa: Euphracta, Glyptodonta, Glyptodontoidea, Protobradidae

Subtaxa: Acantharodeia, Chalamydotheriinae, Chlamydophorina, Dasypina, Dasypodinae, Euphractinae, Euphractus, Macrochorobates, Ornithoryncina, Orycteropina, Peltephilinae, Prodasypus, Stegotheriopsis, Tolypeutinae

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Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore