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The three-toed or three-fingered sloths are arboreal neotropical mammals. [2] They are the only members of the genus Bradypus (meaning "slow-footed") 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 ...
pygmy three-toed sloth, Bradypus pygmaeus: All pages with titles beginning with Brady: branchia: G βράγχιον (bránkhion) gills: Lamellibranchia (class, syn. Bivalva); Branchiopoda (class, brine shrimps) All pages with titles beginning with Branchi: brasiliensis: L: from Brazil
The species of sloths recorded to host arthropods include [29] the pale-throated three-toed sloth, the brown-throated three-toed sloth, and Linnaeus's two-toed sloth. Sloths benefit from their relationship with moths because the moths are responsible for fertilizing algae on the sloth, which provides them with nutrients.
Pilosa species of different families; from top-left, clockwise: silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) Pilosa is an order of placental mammals. Members of this order are called pilosans, and include anteaters and ...
The pygmy three-toed sloth is significantly smaller than the other three members of its genus, but otherwise resembles the brown-throated three-toed sloth. According to Anderson and Handley Jr., the head-and-body length is between 48 and 53 centimetres (19 and 21 in), and the body mass ranges from 2.5 to 3.5 kg (5.5 to 7.7 lb).
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... (Bradypus crinitus) is a three-toed sloth species. Description ... Taxonomic revision of maned sloths, subgenus Bradypus ...
Family Bradypodidae Gray 1821 (three-toed sloths) Family †Megalonychidae Gervais 1855 (megalonychid ground sloths) Family †Megatheriidae Gray 1821 (megatheriid ground sloths) Family †Nothrotheriidae Ameghino 1920 (nothrotheriid ground sloths) Superfamily Mylodontoidea Gill 1872. Family Choloepodidae Pocock 1924 (two-toed sloths)
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