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--> FAMILY Megalonychidae
--> GENUS Choloepus
SPECIES Choloepus didactylus
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 35. | Common Name: | Linnaeus’s Two-toed Sloth | 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 Río Orinoco) south into Brazil (Maranhão west along Rio Amazonas/Solimões) and west into upper Amazon Basin of Ecuador and Perú. | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient. | Comments: | Reviewed by Wetzel and Avila-Pires (1980). Treated here as monotypic; needs revision. |
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brasiliensis Fitzinger, 1871 columbianus Gray, 1871 curi (Link, 1795) florenciae J. A. Allen, 1913 guianensis Fitzinger, 1871 kouri (Daudin, 1802) napensis Lönnberg, 1922 unau (Link, 1795) didaetylus Thomas, 1893
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