Choloepodidae

Choloepus hoffmanni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Mylodontoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Metopophora Cladus: Haptodontiformes Cladus: Sphenacomorpha Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Pantherapsida Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Eutheriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Epicynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliamorpha Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Atlantogenata Superordo: Xenarthra Ordo: Pilosa Subordo: Folivora Superfamilia: Mylodontoidea

Familia: Choloepodidae
Genus: Choloepus

Name

Choloepodidae Gray, 1871

Synonyms

• Choloepina Gray, 1871:430 [as tribe]
• Choloepodinae Gill, 1874:24
• Choloepodidae Goldman, 1920:59; Presslee et al., 2019:Fig. 4; Delsuc et al., 2019:2036
• Choloepidae Pocock, 1924:1029; Wetzel, 1982:53
• Choloepodoidea Kalandadze & Rautian, 1992:101
• Choloepodini McKenna & Bell, 1997:101
• Choloepodina McKenna & Bell, 1997:102

References

Primary references

• Gray J.E. 1871. Notes on the species of Bradypodidae in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 428–449. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Gill, T. 1872. Arrangement of the families of mammals. With analytical tables. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 230: i–vi, 1–98. BHL Reference page. 
• Goldman, E.A. 1920. Mammals of Panama. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 69(5): 1–309. BHL.
• Pocock, R.I. 1924. The External Characters of the South American Edentates. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 94(4): 983–1031. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1924.tb03325.x.
• Wetzel, R.M. 1982. Family Choloepidae. P. 53 in Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. & Koeppl, J.W. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Allen Press and the Association of Systematics Collections: Lawrence. ISBN 0-942924-00-2.
• Kalandadze, N.N. & Rautian, A.S. 1992. The system of mammals and historical zoogeography. Archives of the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University 29: 44–152. [In Russian]
• McKenna, M.C. & Bell, S.K. (eds.). 1997. Classification of mammals: above the species level. Columbia University Press: New York. xii + 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Google Books Reference page. 
• Gardner, A.L. 2005. Order Pilosa. Pp. 100–103 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Presslee, S., Slater, G.J., Pujos, F., Forasiepi, A.M., Fischer, R., Molloy, K., Mackie, M., Olsen, J.V., Kramarz, A., Taglioretti, M., Scaglia, F., Lezcano, M., Lanata, J.L., Southon, J., Feranec, R., Bloch, J., Hajduk, A., Martin, F.M., Gismondi, R.S., Reguero, M., de Muizon, C., Greenwood, A., Chait, B.T., Penkman, K., Collins, M. & MacPhee, R.D.E. 2019. Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1121–1130. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0909-z.
• Delsuc, F., Kuch, M., Gibb, G.C., Karpinski, E., Hackenberger, D., Szpak, P., Martínez, J.G., Mead, J.I., McDonald, H.G., MacPhee, R.D.E., Billet, G., Hautier, L. & Poinar, H.N. 2019. Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Sloths. Current Biology 29(12): 2031–2042. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.043.