"The creature before us is the dasypus sexcinctus.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston
dasypus novemcinctus mexicanus Peters.
"Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, Mexico"
J. Knox Jones, Jr. Ticul Alvarez M. Raymond Lee
The burrowers are divided into the following genera: Manis, the scaly ant-eaters; dasypus, the armadillos; Chlamydophorus, the pichiciagos; Orycteropus, the ant-bears, and Myrmecophaga, the American ant-eaters.
"Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon"
Robert A. Sterndale