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Choloepus hoffmanni subsp. hoffmanni Peters 1858

Description

Choloepus hoffmanni subsp. hoffmanni Peters 1858

Choloepus hoffmanni subsp. hoffmanni Peters 1858, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1858: 128.

Type Locality: " Costa Rica;" restricted to Escazú, San José, by Goodwin (1946); corrected to Heredia, Volcán Barbara, by Wetzel and Avila-Pires (1980).

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 101, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Peters
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Pilosa
Family
Megalonychidae
Genus
Choloepus
Species
hoffmanni
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Choloepus hoffmanni subsp. hoffmanni Peters, 1858 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Goodwin, G. G. 1946. Mammals of Costa Rica. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 87: 271 - 471.
  • 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.