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--> GENUS Tremarctos
SPECIES Tremarctos ornatus
| Author: | F. G. Cuvier, 1825. | | Citation: | In E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, pt. 3, 5(50): "Ours des cordiliéres du Chili," 2 pp.. | | Common Name: | Spectacled Bear | | Type Locality: | "cordiliéres du Chili," restricted by Cabrera (1957) to "los montañas al este de Trujillo, departamento de la Libertad, Perú." | | Distribution: | Mountainous regions of W Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama (?), Peru, W Venezuela. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Some authors have considered this genus as the only extent member of the subfamily Tremarctinae (Thenius, 1976). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
frugilegus (Tschudi, 1844)
lasallei Maria, 1924
majori Thomas, 1902
nasutus (Sclater, 1868)
thomasi (Hornaday, 1911)
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