Order Edentata
Author
James H. Honacki
Author
Kenneth E. Kinman
Author
James W. Koeppl
text
1982
Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Editor
James H. Honacki
Editor
Kenneth E. Kinman
Editor
James W. Koeppl
Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition)
52
57
book chapter
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Family
Choloepidae
REVIEWED BY: R. M. Wetzel (RMW).
COMMENT: Formerly included in
Bradypodidae
; see Patterson and Pascual, 1968, Q. Rev. BioL, 43:409-451;
Hoffstetter, 1969
, Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 2, 41:91-103. Webb, 1982,
in
Montgomery, ed., The evolution and ecology of sloths, anteaters and armadillos (
Mammalia, Xenarthra
=
Edentata
), Smithson. Inst. Press,
Washington
, D.C., places
Choloepidae
in
Megalonychidae
.