Choloepus Illiger, 1811
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium. p.108
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Pilosa
- family
- Megalonychidae
- genus
- Choloepus
Name
- Synonyms
- Chaelopus
- Choelopus Lichtenstein, 1818
- Choelopus Tschudi, 1844
- Cholaepus Gray, 1825
- Cholaepus Illiger, 1811
- Choleopus Ameghino, 1908
- Cholepus Sélys, 1839
- Cholopus Agassiz, 1846
- Homonyms
- Choloepus Illiger, 1811
- Choloepus
- Common names
- Leniuchowiec in Polish
- Perezosos de dos dedos in Spanish
- Preguiças-de-dois-dedos in Portuguese
- Tofingerdovendyr in Norwegian Bokmål
- Two-Toed Sloths in English
- Two-toed sloths in language.
- Zweifingerfaultiere in German
- two-toed sloths in English
- two-toed sloths in English
- two-toed sloths in English
- Двупалые ленивцы in Russian
- フタユビナマケモノ属 in Japanese
- 二趾樹懶屬 in Chinese
- 두발가락나무늘보속 in Korean
Bibliographic References
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1922 Loris E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796 (Mammalia, Primates): conserved, and correction made to the entry for Choloepus Illiger, 1811 (Xenarthra) on the Official List.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 56(1), 101-103 (1999)
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Prod.
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
- Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
- Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
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