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--> GENUS Bradypus
SPECIES Bradypus variegatus
Author: | Schinz, 1825. | Citation: | Das Thierreich, 4: 510. | Common Name: | Brown-throated Sloth | Type Locality: | "Sudamerika;" restricted to Brazil by Mertens (1925) who suggested that the type may have come from Bahia. | Distribution: | Honduras to Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, W Venezuela, E Perú and Bolivia, Paraguay, and N Argentina. | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | The literature contains the following unavailable names: braziliensis Sanderson, 1949 [incorrect subsequent spelling of brasiliensis Blainville]; infumatus Tschudi, 1845 [incorrect subsequent spelling of infuscatus Wagler]; rifuscatus Cornelia, 1849 [incorrect subsequent spelling of infuscatus Wagler]; speculiger Fitzinger, 1871 [nomen nudum]. |
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