Choloepus didactylus
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Description
Choloepus didactylus (Linnaeus 1758)
[Bradypus] didactylus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 35.
Type Locality: "Zeylona;" corrected to Surinam by Thomas (1911 a). Not British Guiana as stated by Tate (1939).
Vernacular Names: Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth.
Synonyms: Choloepus brasiliensis Fitzinger 1871; Choloepus columbianus Gray 1871; Choloepus curi (Link 1795); Choloepus florenciae J. A. Allen 1913; Choloepus guianensis Fitzinger 1871; Choloepus kouri (Daudin 1802); Choloepus napensis Lönnberg 1922; Choloepus unau (Link 1795); Choloepus didaetylus Thomas 1893.
Distribution: Guianas and Venezuela (delta and south of Río Orinoco) south into Brazil (Maranhão west along Rio Amazonas /Solimões) and west into upper Amazon Basin of Ecuador and Perú.
Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient.
Discussion: Reviewed by Wetzel and Avila-Pires (1980). Treated here as monotypic; needs revision.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Megalonychidae
- Genus
- Choloepus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pilosa
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- didactylus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Choloepus didactylus (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.
- Tate, G. H. H. 1939. The mammals of the Guiana region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 76: 151 - 229.
- Allen, J. A. 1913. Revision of the Melanomys group of American Muridae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 32: 535 - 555.
- Thomas, O. 1893. On some new Bornean mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 11: 341 - 347.
- Wetzel, R. M., and F. D. de Avila-Pires. 1980. Identification and distribution of the Recent sloths of Brazil (Edentata). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 40: 831 - 836.