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Choloepus didactylus

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Choloepus didactylus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:35.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Zeylona;" corrected to Surinam by Thomas (1911a). Not British Guiana as stated by Tate (1939).

DISTRIBUTION: Guianas and Venezuela (delta and south of Rio Orinoco) south into Brazil (Maranhâo west along Rio Amazonas/Solimöes) and west into upper Amazon Basin of Ecuador and Peril.

SYNONYMS: brasiliensis Fitzinger, 1871; curi Link, 1795; florenciae J. A. Allen, 1913; kouri Daudin, 1799; napensis Lönnberg, 1922; unau Link, 1795.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Wetzel and Avila-Pires (1980).

Notes

Published as part of Alfred L. Gardner, 1993, Order Xenarthra, pp. 63-68 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353136

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/851C87C58231FFD0FEDDFE4864D1950B

Related works

Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353136 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7925FFBD8230FFD1FFCEFFB060379664 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/851C87C58231FFD0FEDDFE4864D1950B (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/205134378 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193455/taxon/851C87C58231FFD0FEDDFE4864D1950B.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Xenarthra
Family
Megalonychidae
Genus
Choloepus
Species
didactylus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Choloepus didactylus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Gardner, 1993

References

  • 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.
  • 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.