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SPECIES Bradypus variegatus

Author:Schinz, 1825.
Citation:Das Thierreich, 4: 510.
Common Name:Brown-throated Sloth
Type Locality:"Sudamerika;" restricted to Brazil by Mertens (1925) who suggested that the type may have come from Bahia.
Distribution:Honduras to Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, W Venezuela, E Perú and Bolivia, Paraguay, and N Argentina.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:The literature contains the following unavailable names: braziliensis Sanderson, 1949 [incorrect subsequent spelling of brasiliensis Blainville]; infumatus Tschudi, 1845 [incorrect subsequent spelling of infuscatus Wagler]; rifuscatus Cornelia, 1849 [incorrect subsequent spelling of infuscatus Wagler]; speculiger Fitzinger, 1871 [nomen nudum].
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SUBSPECIES variegatus

SUBSPECIES boliviensis

SUBSPECIES brasiliensis

SUBSPECIES ephippiger

SUBSPECIES gorgon

SUBSPECIES infuscatus

SUBSPECIES trivittatus

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