Other species include giant armadillo Priodontes maximuss (EN), paca Cuniculus paca and prehensile-tailed porcupine Coendou bicolor. From Wordnik.com. [Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru] Reference
Jaguars, smaller cats and maned wolves (Chrysocyon brachyurus) maintain prey populations in check within an intact biota which boasts healthy populations of cracids, tapirs, and giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus). From Wordnik.com. [Chiquitano dry forests] Reference
Other species, such as giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla (EN) and giant armadillo Priodontes maximus (EN), are found both in humid forests and in the drier habitats, but appear to reach their greatest population densities in the termite plains. From Wordnik.com. [Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia] Reference
The large intact grasslands of the savanna and surrounding habitats support diverse mammal populations which include giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla (VU), giant armadillo Priodontes maximus (EN), jaguar Panthera onca, puma Puma concolor and Brazilian tapir Tapirus terrestris (VU). From Wordnik.com. [Canaima National Park, Venezuela] Reference
This unique forest shelters a critically endangered reptile (Caiman latirostris); one endangered bird (Sporophila nigrofufa) and at least three mammals (Priodontes maximus, Chrysocyon brachyurus and Pteronura brasiliensis) and three birds, one reptile and 12 mammals in a vulnerable status. From Wordnik.com. [Chiquitano dry forests] Reference
Two of the most unusual species are the giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus, EN) and the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla, VU), which as the largest anteater in the world can grow up to 1.9 meters in length from nose to base of tail, with a huge flag-like tail that can be up to a meter long. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Cerrado] Reference
Priodontes (manual digit number varies from three to five in armadillos). From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Priodontes maximus, and specifically the animal's right hand and lower arm. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Priodontes had the highest IFA among armadillos after Chlamyphorus, the mole-like pichiciegos or fairy armadillos. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Mammals include giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla (VU), giant armadillo Priodontes maximus (EN), maned wolf Chrysocyon brachiurus (VU), jaguar Panthera onca (VU) and pampas deer Ozotoceros bezoarticus (EN). From Wordnik.com. [Cerrado Protected Areas, Brazil] Reference
These include the jaguar (Panthera onca), giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthus), giant armadillo (Priodontes gigantes), marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus), and pampas deer (Ozotocerus bezoarticus). From Wordnik.com. [Pantanal] Reference
Priodontes is so modified that, in the digits, it's kind of difficult to work out where some of the metacarpals and phalanges are as, excepting in digits I and II, all have become proximodistally compressed, block-like elements similar to the wrist bones (carpals). From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Priodontes and the naked-tailed armadillos (Cabassous. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Distinctive species include the following, plants: Caryocar brasiliense, Qualea grandiflora, Byrsonima coccolobifolia, and Tabebuia ochracea; birds: lesser nothura (Nothura minor), dwarf tinamou (Taoniscus nanus), blue-eyed ground-dove (Columbina cyanopis), white-winged nightjar (Caprimulgus candicans), Brasília tapaculo (Scytalopus novacapitalis), and cinereous warbling-finch (Poospiza cinerea); mammals: the candango mouse (Juscelinomys candango), cerrado mouse (Thalpomys cerradensis), Lindbergh's grass mouse (Akodon lindberghi), pygmy short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis kunsi), giant armadillo (Priodontes naximus), and the maned wolf (Chrysoicyon brachyurus); and lizards: Tropidurus itambere, Tropidurus oreadicus, and Tupinambis duseni. From Wordnik.com. [Cerrado] Reference
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