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FAMILY Megalonychidae

Author:Ameghino, 1889.
Citation:Acta Acad. Nac. Cienc. Cordoba, Buenos Aires, 6: 690.
Comments:Includes Choloepus and approximately 12 genera of extinct sloths, some of which survived to the Holocene on Caribbean islands. Choloepus was formerly included in Bradypodidae (see Hoffstetter, 1969; Patterson and Pascual, 1968a) or Choloepidae (see Honacki et al., 1982). Placed in Megalonychidae by Webb (1985) and Wetzel (1985a).
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GENUS Choloepus

SPECIES didactylus

SPECIES hoffmanni

SUBSPECIES hoffmanni

SUBSPECIES capitalis

SUBSPECIES florenciae

SUBSPECIES juruanus

SUBSPECIES pallescens

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