🐾Giant armadillo
왕아르마딜로(Priodontes maximus) 또는 큰아르마딜로는 피갑목 세띠아르마딜로아과의 아르마딜로의 한 종이다. 현존하는 아르마딜로 중에서 가장 큰 종이며, 아르헨티나와 아마존 지대에 주로 분포한다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 45 kg
- Body length
- 0.94 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 15 years
Everything we know about the Giant armadillo
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass45 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 33 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.94 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan15 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 15 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length5.42 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity328 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation122 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 122 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range3.19 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.6 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l45 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Giant armadillo yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCingulata
- ›familyDasypodidae
- ›genusPriodontes
- ›speciesPriodontes maximus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCingulata
- familyChlamyphoridae
- genusPriodontes
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- orderCingulata
- familyChlamyphoridae
- genusPriodontes
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