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SpeciesCingulataDasypodidae
Mammals

🐾Giant armadillo

Priodontes maximus (Kerr, 1792)

Гигантский броненосец (лат. Priodontes maximus) — млекопитающее из семейства Chlamyphoridae, самый крупный представитель отряда.

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Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Giant armadillo

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
45 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 33 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.94 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 15 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
5.42 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
328 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
122 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 122 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 2
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
3.19 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
1.6 per km²
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
45 Laverage
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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.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCingulata
  5. ›familyDasypodidae
  6. ›genusPriodontes
  7. ›speciesPriodontes maximus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCingulata
  3. familyChlamyphoridae
  4. genusPriodontes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. orderCingulata
  11. familyChlamyphoridae
  12. genusPriodontes
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What it eats
insects and other invertebrates100%
In other languages
Riesengürteltier (de), Priodontes maximus (es), Priodontes maximus (fr), Tatu-canastra (pt), Zębolita olbrzymia (pl), Гигантский броненосец (ru) … and 20 more languages
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