Zool. Also chlamyphore. [ad. mod.L. chlamydophorus (incorrectly chlamyphorus), f. Gr. χλαμύδ- (χλαμύς) mantle, cloak + -φορος bearing, wearing.]
A genus of edentate mammals consisting of a single South American species, a small burrowing animal allied to the armadillo, having the upper surface covered with a cuirass of leathery plates.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., II. 46/2. The recently discovered American fossorial animal, the Chlamyphorus.
1849. Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia, IV. 203. The chlamyphorus … possesses characters so exclusively its own as to render it one of the most interesting discoveries in zoology.
1876. Encycl. Brit., Chlamydophore … found at Mendoza on the Eastern slope of the Cordilleras, where it is known as the Pichiciago.
