Giant armadillo, atu-canastra, tatou, ocarro or tatú carreta, Priodontes maximus. Greater twelve-banded armadillo, the Autre kabassou of Buffon. After a specimen in the British Museum. Copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw’s General Zoology: Mammalia, G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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