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fairy armadillo - very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck

chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus, pichiciago, pichiciego

armadillo - burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates

Chlamyphorus, genus Chlamyphorus - pichiciago

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Some of the expressions are magnificent, like the embarrassed Lesser Fairy Armadillo or the sneaky Banded Linsang.

Brown, Martin: Lesser Spotted Animals

"The pink fairy armadillo is probably one of the most interesting I have come across but I am yet to see it in its natural habitat.

Weird world

While its range expands and its numbers increase, most of its relatives are declining, and at least one species, the Pink Fairy Armadillo (a native of Argentina), is endangered.

The little armored one: armadillos continue to expand their territory in the United States

& The Pink Fairy Armadillo is just nine centimetres long.

WILD looking ANIMALS... THEY'RE NOT NATURE'S BEAUTIES

pichiy and the pink fairy armadillo Chlamyphorus truncatus, and the highest values for C.

The hypertrophy of the tympanic bulla in three species of dasypodids (mammalia, xenarthra) from Argentina/ La hipertrofia de la bula timpanica en tres especies de dasipididos (mammalia, xenarthra) de Argentina

The naturalist goes in search of an armour-plated mammal known as the pink fairy armadillo.

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