Choloepus Illiger, 1811

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
GENUS: Published in
Illiger, Johann K. W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium: Additis Terminis Zoographicis Utriusque Classis, Eorumque Versione Germanica. Sumptibus C. Salfeld, Berolini.: i-xviii + 1-301.

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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: Two-toed sloths in language.; two-toed sloths in English

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)
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
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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