Bradypus
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Name (Latin)
Bradypus
Other forms of name
Scaeopus
Three-toed sloths
Three-toed tree sloths
Tree sloths, Three-toed
See Also From tracing topical name
Bradypodidae
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q185167
Library of congress:
sh 85016290
Sources of Information
- Walker mam. world:v. 1, p. 520 (Genus Bradypus. Three-toed tree sloths. 3 species)
- Mammal species of the world, 1993:p. 63 (Bradypus, family Bradypodidae. 3 species)
- Corbet world list mam. species:p. 23 (Bradypus (Scaeopus - three-toed sloths))
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Bradypus
Stefan Laube (Tauchgurke), Public domain
Wikipedia description:
The three-toed or three-fingered sloths are arboreal neotropical mammals. They are the only members of the genus Bradypus (meaning "slow-footed" in Ancient Greek) and the family Bradypodidae. The five living species of three-toed sloths are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, the southern maned sloth, and the pygmy three-toed sloth. In complete contrast to past morphological studies, which tended to place Bradypus as the sister group to all other folivorans, molecular studies place them nested within the sloth superfamily Megatherioidea, making them the only surviving members of that radiation.
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