Mariela C. Castro

Mariela C. Castro, Brazilian mammalogist.

• División Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Paseo del Bosque s/n, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina.

Taxon names authored

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• 4 taxon names authored by Mariela C. Castro

Publications

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2014

• Carlini, A.A., Castro, M.C., Madden, R.H. & Scillato-Yané, G.J. [2013] 2014. A new species of Dasypodidae (Xenarthra: Cingulata) from the late Miocene of northwestern South America: implications in the Dasypodini phylogeny and diversity. Historical Biology 26(6): 728–736. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2013.840832 Reference page. 

2015

• Castro, M.C., Ciancio, M.R., Pacheco, V., Salas-Gismondi, R.M., Bostelmann, J.E. & Carlini, A.A. 2015. Reassessment of the hairy long-nosed armadillo “Dasypus” pilosus (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae) and revalidation of the genus Cryptophractus Fitzinger, 1856. Zootaxa 3947(1): 30–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.1.2 Preview (PDF). Reference page. 

2026

• Casali, D.M., Castro, M.C., Ciancio, M.R., Gaudin, T.J., Bramblett, J.L., Boscaini, A., Perini, F.A. & Langer, M.C. 2026. Unravelling the phylogeny of armadillos and their kin (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) combining morphological, molecular, and stratigraphic data. Cladistics (in press). DOI: 10.1111/cla.70048 Reference page.