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nine-banded armadillo

NOUN
  1. having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay

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  • As is the case with plants, the hotspot also holds a number of more widespread mammal species, including the jaguar (Panthera onca), Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii, EN), the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), and the olingo (Bassaricyon gabbii). Biological diversity in Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
  • Three-banded armadillos developed a unique antipredator strategy by entirely rolling up into a ball, and nine-banded armadillos are the only vertebrates to reproduce by obligate monozygotic polyembryony.
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