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Bradypus tridactylus Linnaeus 1758
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Bradypus tridactylus Linnaeus 1758
Bradypus tridactylus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 34.
Type Locality: "Americæ meridionalis arboribus;" restricted to Surinam by Thomas (1911 a).
Vernacular Names: Pale-throated Sloth.
Synonyms: Bradypus ai (Lesson 1827); Bradypus blainvillii (Gray 1850); Bradypus cuculliger Wagler 1831; Bradypus cummunis Lesson 1841; Bradypus dysonii (Gray 1869); Bradypus flaccidus (Gray 1850); Bradypus guianensis Blainville 1840; Bradypus gularis Rüppell 1842; Bradypus smithii (Gray 1869); Bradypus flaccions Sanderson 1949.
Distribution: Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Venezuela south of the Orinoco, and N Brazil (south to the Amazonas /Solimões).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Pilosa, pp. 100-103 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 100, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
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- Pilosa
- Family
- Bradypodidae
- Genus
- Bradypus
- Species
- tridactylus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bradypus tridactylus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
- Gray, J. E. 1850. Catalogue of the specimens of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Cetacea. British Museum (Natural History), London, 153 pp.
- Gray, J. E. 1869. Catalogue of carnivorous, pachydermatous and edentate mammals in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 398 pp.