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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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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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