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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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Synonyms:

    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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