🐾Pink fairy armadillo
The pink fairy armadillo is the smallest species of armadillo, first described by Richard Harlan in 1825. The pink fairy armadillo is 90–115 mm (3.5–4.5 in) long, and typically weighs about 120 g (4.2 oz). This solitary, desert-adapted animal is endemic to the deserts and scrub lands of central Argentina. The pink fairy armadillo is closely related to the only other fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorinae), the greater fairy armadillo.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 0.08 kg
- Body length
- 0.14 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 4.32 years
Everything we know about the Pink fairy armadillo
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.08 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.04 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length0.14 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan4.32 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length3.59 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation85 daysestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 2estimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Pink fairy armadillo yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCingulata
- ›familyDasypodidae
- ›genusChlamyphorus
- ›speciesChlamyphorus truncatus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCingulata
- familyChlamyphoridae
- genusChlamyphorus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- orderCingulata
- familyChlamyphoridae
- genusChlamyphorus
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