pichiciago

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Related to pichiciego: Chlamyphorus, chevrotain

pichiciago

pichiciago (pĭchˌĭsēäˈgō): see armadillo.
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(65.) Irina Podgorny, "Diplomacia, pichiciegos, megaterios y gliptodontes.
FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND PENNSYLVANIA TO THE ANDES: PHYSICIANS AND SOLDIERS IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY ARGENTINA
Entre los primeros se destacan, Chaetophractus villosus y Chaetophractus vellerosus (peludos); Zaedyus pichiy (piche); con influencia chaquena, Tolypeutes mataco (mataco) y Chlamyphorus truncatus (pichiciego) (Braun y Mares 1995; Roig 1972; Vizcaino et al.
Aprovechamiento de recursos faunisticos en las Lagunas de Guanacache (Mendoza, Argentina). Analisis zooarqueologico de la empozada y altos de Melien II
In the lowest mountainous regions of the province of Mendoza, within the Nacunan Biosphere Reserve, the most typical animals are the pichiciego (Chlamyphorus), the small gray fox or chilla (Pseudalopex griseus), the jagouarundi (Felis yagouaroundi), and the tortoise (Geochelone chilensis).
4 Protected areas and biosphere reserves of the hot deserts and subdeserts
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