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GENUS Melursus
| Author: | Meyer, 1793. | | Citation: | Zool. Entdeck.: 155-160. | | Type Species: | Melursus lybius Meyer, 1793 (= Bradypus ursinus Shaw, 1791), by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987). | | Comments: | Revised by Pocock (1932b). See comments under Helarctos concerning the relationship between these taxa. Synonyms allocated according to McKenna and Bell (1997). |
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| Offspring: SPECIES ursinus SUBSPECIES ursinus SUBSPECIES inornatus | Synonyms:
Arceus Goldfuss, 1809
Chondrorhynchus Fischer de Waldheim, 1814
Prochilus Illiger, 1811
Prochylus Gray, 1821
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