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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA47487FD4681F8FD60" box="[190,407,676,700]" italics="true" pageId="23">Bradypus variegatus</emphasis>
Schinz, 1825
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VOUCHER MATERIAL (TOTAL = 4): Nuevo
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(MUSM 11075, 23811), Orosa (AMNH 73758, 73759).
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OTHER INTERFLUVIAL RECORDS: Actiamë (
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), Jenaro Herrera (Pavlinov, 1994), Río Yavarí-Mirím (Salovaara et al., 2003),
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(Valqui, 1999).
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IDENTIFICATION: Four living species of bradypodid sloths are currently recognized, of which one (
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA4749CFBD48143FB91" box="[165,300,1078,1101]" italics="true" pageId="23">B. pygmaeus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDD4B0BFFA3FFA4750AFBD4821BFB92" author="Anderson, R. P. &amp; C. O. Handley, Jr." box="[307,628,1078,1102]" pageId="23" pagination="1 - 33" refId="ref60729" refString="Anderson, R. P., and C. O. Handley, Jr. 2001. A new species of three-toed sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Panama, with a review of the genus Bradypus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114: 1 - 33." type="journal article" year="2001">Anderson and Handley, 2001</bibRefCitation>
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) is an insular endemic, another (
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA475DFFBBA8213FBB3" box="[486,636,1111,1135]" italics="true" pageId="23">B. tridactylus</emphasis>
Linnaeus, 1758
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) is restricted to northeastern Amazonia (east of the Rio Negro and north of the lower Amazon), a third (
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA47592FB5E8240FB0F" box="[427,559,1212,1235]" italics="true" pageId="23">B. torquatus</emphasis>
Illiger, 1811
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) is endemic to the Atlantic forest of southeastern
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, and the fourth (
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA475F2FB1D8237FACA" box="[459,600,1279,1302]" italics="true" pageId="23">B. variegatus</emphasis>
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) is thought to range throughout most of Central America and tropical South America (
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; Gardner, 2008).
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Although
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA47539FA6781B2FA40" box="[256,477,1413,1437]" italics="true" pageId="23">Bradypus variegatus</emphasis>
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(the “brownthroated three-toed sloth” of English usage) and
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA4765EFA4580B5FA3C" italics="true" pageId="23">B. tridactylus</emphasis>
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(the “pale-throated three-toed sloth”) are the only currently recognized species of Amazonian bradypodids (Wetzel, 1985a;
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; Gardner, 2008), Amazonian threetoed sloths have received no modern revisionary attention, and there is little compelling evidence to support current taxonomic usage. In particular, the extensive distribution of
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA4754DF9518196F916" box="[372,505,1715,1738]" italics="true" pageId="23">B. variegatus</emphasis>
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(from Hon- duras to northern
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), substantial geographic variation in morphology (see below), and preliminary genetic evidence from gene-sequencing studies (e.g., Moraes-Barros and Arteaga, 2015; Ruiz-García et al., 2017) all suggest that brownthroated three-toed sloths include several distinct taxa. Seven South American subspecies of
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA4705CFE4B828DFE3D" italics="true" pageId="23">B. variegatus</emphasis>
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were recognized by Gardner (2008), but no explicit justification for sloth trinomial nomenclature has yet been provided by any author.
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The type locality of
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA47785FDCE84F0FD98" box="[956,1183,556,580]" italics="true" pageId="23">Bradypus variegatus</emphasis>
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is assumed to be somewhere in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern
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(Wetzel and Kock, 1973), and specimens that are morphologically similar to Atlantic Forest material have been collected throughout southeastern Amazonia, from the vicinity of Belém westward to the left (west) bank of the Tapajos. Sequence data analyzed by Moraes-Barros and Arteaga (2015) and Ruiz- García et al. (2017) likewise suggest that southeastern Amazonian and Atlantic Forest populations of brown-throated three-toed sloths are closely related. Additionally, photographs of the
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skull (SMF 4313; available online from the Senkenberg Naturmuseum database) closely match the craniodental morphology of southeastern Amazonian specimens that we examined. In the paragraphs that follow, we assume that southeastern Amazonian three-toed sloths represent the nominotypical form,
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA4704DFB438305FB05" italics="true" pageId="23">B. variegatus variegatus</emphasis>
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.
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Three-toed sloths from the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve and others that we examined from western Amazonia fit the description of
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA47010FAC7829BFA82" italics="true" pageId="23">Bradypus variegatus</emphasis>
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in the inclusive sense that this binomen is currently applied (e.g., by Wetzel and Avila-Pires, 1980; Wetzel, 1985a;
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; Gardner, 2008). Traits that support the identification of western Amazonian three-toed sloths as belonging to the
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complex include (1) the presence of a speculum in adult males (a speculum is absent in
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); (2) absence of a mane of long black hair (present in
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA47016F9AD84C2F9BA" box="[1071,1197,1615,1638]" italics="true" pageId="23">B. torquatus</emphasis>
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); (3) the consistently brownish coloration of the throat (the gular fur is whitish or yellowish in
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA3FFA47091F9738375F916" italics="true" pageId="23">B. tridactylus</emphasis>
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); (4) the absence of large foramina in
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Craniodental Measurements (mm) of Three-toed Sloths (
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFACFFAB7718FEF783B9FEF5" bold="true" box="[801,982,277,297]" italics="true" pageId="24">Bradypus variegatus</emphasis>
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ssp.)
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFACFFAB76F1FEA58329FE85" box="[712,838,326,345]" italics="true" pageId="24">B. v. infuscatus</emphasis>
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a
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFACFFAB77C5FEA58413FE84" box="[1020,1148,326,345]" italics="true" pageId="24">B. v. variegatus</emphasis>
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b
</th>
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<th id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C744CFE8981CDFEA2" box="[117,418,363,382]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="24">Condyloalveolar length</th>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C76A6FE89831BFEA2" box="[671,884,363,382]" gridcol="1" gridrow="1" pageId="24">74.3 ± 3.1 (69.6–80.9) 24</td>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C77ECFE8984C5FEA2" box="[981,1194,363,382]" gridcol="2" gridrow="1" pageId="24">66.8 ± 2.4 (61.3–71.5) 25</td>
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<th id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C744CFE6D81CDFE7F" box="[117,418,399,419]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="24">Rostral breadth</th>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C76A6FE6D831BFE7F" box="[671,884,399,419]" gridcol="1" gridrow="2" pageId="24">21.1 ± 1.3 (18.6–25.1) 24</td>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C77ECFE6D84C5FE7F" box="[981,1194,399,419]" gridcol="2" gridrow="2" pageId="24">16.5 ± 0.8 (14.7–17.9) 26</td>
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<th id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C744CFE5681CDFE14" box="[117,418,436,456]" gridcol="0" gridrow="3" pageId="24">Least interorbital breadth</th>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C76A6FE56831BFE14" box="[671,884,436,456]" gridcol="1" gridrow="3" pageId="24">23.8 ± 1.0 (21.8–25.6) 24</td>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C77ECFE5684C5FE14" box="[981,1194,436,456]" gridcol="2" gridrow="3" pageId="24">21.6 ± 1.7 (18.0–24.9) 25</td>
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<th id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C744CFE3B81CDFE31" box="[117,418,473,493]" gridcol="0" gridrow="4" pageId="24">Least postorbital breadth</th>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C76A6FE3B831BFE31" box="[671,884,473,493]" gridcol="1" gridrow="4" pageId="24">24.3 ± 1.8 (21.1–28.6) 24</td>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C77ECFE3B84C5FE31" box="[981,1194,473,493]" gridcol="2" gridrow="4" pageId="24">21.8 ± 1.6 (18.0–24.9) 26</td>
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<th id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C744CFE1C81CDFDCE" box="[117,418,510,530]" gridcol="0" gridrow="5" pageId="24">Anterior zygomatic breadth</th>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C76A6FE1C831BFDCE" box="[671,884,510,530]" gridcol="1" gridrow="5" pageId="24">48.7 ± 2.0 (44.9–53.3) 19</td>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C77ECFE1C84C5FDCE" box="[981,1194,510,530]" gridcol="2" gridrow="5" pageId="24">42.6 ± 2.1 (37.0–46.3) 25</td>
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<th id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C744CFDC181CDFDEA" box="[117,418,547,566]" gridcol="0" gridrow="6" pageId="24">Posterior zygomatic breadth</th>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C76A6FDC1831BFDEA" box="[671,884,547,566]" gridcol="1" gridrow="6" pageId="24">48.2 ± 2.5 (43.0–54.9) 24</td>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C77ECFDC184C5FDEA" box="[981,1194,547,566]" gridcol="2" gridrow="6" pageId="24">42.8 ± 2.1 (38.5–46.7) 26</td>
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<th id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C744CFDAA81CDFD87" box="[117,418,584,603]" gridcol="0" gridrow="7" pageId="24">Maxillary toothrow</th>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C76A6FDAA831BFD87" box="[671,884,584,603]" gridcol="1" gridrow="7" pageId="24">26.8 ± 1.1 (25.1–29.1) 24</td>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C77ECFDAA84C5FD87" box="[981,1194,584,603]" gridcol="2" gridrow="7" pageId="24">23.8 ± 0.9 (22.7–25.7) 26</td>
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<th id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C744CFD8F81CDFD5C" box="[117,418,621,640]" gridcol="0" gridrow="8" pageId="24">Greatest diameter of pseudoincisor</th>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C76A6FD8F831BFD5C" box="[671,884,621,640]" gridcol="1" gridrow="8" pageId="24">4.0 ± 0.4 (3.2–5.0) 24</td>
<td id="76AD5DC4FFAC004C77ECFD8F84C5FD5C" box="[981,1194,621,640]" gridcol="2" gridrow="8" pageId="24">2.5 ± 0.4 (1.9–3.4) 24</td>
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The mean plus or minus one standard deviation, the observed range (in parentheses), and the sample size for measurements of the following series from western Amazonia: AMNH 71822, 73572, 73574, 73758, 73759, 74429, 76408, 76495, 76497, 78515, 188196; BMNH 80.5.6.56, 80.5.6.58; FMNH 20132, 70812, 86896; LSUMZ 12304; MUSM 8301, 8302, 11075, 33610; MVZ 155186, 157796, 157797.
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The mean plus or minus one standard deviation, the observed range (in parentheses), and the sample size for measurements
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<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFACFFAB7452FCFF808CFCBA" blockId="24.[106,1211,663,870]" pageId="24">of the following series from southeastern Amazonia: AMNH 75140, 95101, 95102, 95104–95106, 95325, 95326, 95328, 96244– 96246, 96250, 96252, 96253, 96255, 133415, 133419, 133426, 133432, 133438; BMNH 4.7.4.92, 4.7.4.110, 4.7.4.111; FMNH 92079, 94551.</paragraph>
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the anterior part of the mesopterygoid fossa (present in
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFACFFAB7481FC498126FC1E" box="[184,329,938,962]" italics="true" pageId="24">B. tridactylus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFACFFAB75BEFC498262FC1E" box="[391,525,939,962]" italics="true" pageId="24">B. torquatus</emphasis>
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); and (5) large size (
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFACFFAB74DBFC2E8104FC3F" box="[226,363,972,995]" italics="true" pageId="24">B. pygmaeus</emphasis>
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is much smaller). However, other phenotypic characters distinguish western Amazonian material from southeastern Amazonian specimens of
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFACFFAB75B8FBCD8260FB9A" box="[385,527,1071,1094]" italics="true" pageId="24">
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFACFFAB75B8FBCD8264FB9A" authorityName="Schinz" authorityYear="1825" box="[385,523,1071,1094]" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pilosa" pageId="24" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="variegatus">B. variegatus</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
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In western Amazonian specimens of brownthroated three-toed sloths, the anteriormost maxillary teeth (the “pseudo-incisors” of Thomas, 1917) are large and procumbent; the rostrum is correspondingly broad; the nasal bones are short, often exposing the nasal orifice and the projecting pseudoincisors in dorsal view; and the postorbital process of the jugal is well developed (figs. 7A, 7B, 8A). The co-ossified mandibles are likewise distinctive, entirely lacking any trace of the median anterior process (symphysial spout) seen in other sloths, but with a deep symphysis that often extends posteriorly between the third pair of teeth (fig. 9A). By contrast, the pseudoincisors of southeastern Amazonian specimens are much smaller and nonprocumbent; the rostrum is narrower; longer nasal bones conceal the nasal orifice from dorsal view but extend the orifice such that it is visible from below; and a postorbital process of the jugal is absent or indistinct in most examined specimens (figs. 7C, 7D, 8B). Additionally, the mandibles of all examined specimens from southeastern Amazonia have a small but distinct symphysial spout, and the symphysis only extends posteriorly between or just beyond the second pair of teeth (fig. 9B). On average, skulls from western Amazonia are substantially larger than those from southeastern Amazonian in all measured dimensions (
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), but most measurements exhibit overlapping variation; an exception is rostral breadth, which is diagnostically greater in western Amazonian material than in specimens from southeastern Amazonia. We have not been able to discover any pelage or other external differences between three-toed sloths from western and southeastern Amazonia, which both seem to be highly variable (e.g., in pelage coloration).
</paragraph>
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Western Amazonian three-toed sloths are usually associated with the epithet
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFACFFAB7077F9DD84D3F98B" box="[1102,1212,1599,1623]" italics="true" pageId="24">infuscatus</emphasis>
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(e.g., by Thomas, 1928; Gardner, 2008), a convention that we follow despite misgivings about the application of this name. According to Wagler (1831: 611),
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA8755BFC6B822AFC7D" box="[354,581,905,929]" italics="true" pageId="27">Bradypus infuscatus</emphasis>
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was based on a single specimen collected by “Herr von Spix” (= Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix) on the border between
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and
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(“Brasilia versus
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”). Based on Spix’s known itinerary (Vanzolini, 1981;
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), it seems reasonably certain that the
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(by monotypy, a specimen in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, ZSM 1162; Wetzel and Kock, 1973) was collected at or near Tabatinga, on the left (north) bank of the upper Amazon, just across the river from
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and the mouth of the Yavarí (fig. 1).
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We have not examined this specimen, which consists only of a mounted skin (A. van Heteren, personal commun., 2016); the skull was said to be missing in the original description (Wagler, 1831) and has not been recovered.
</paragraph>
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FIG. 7. Dorsal and ventral cranial views of
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFADFFAA760BF9E78305F9C1" box="[562,874,1541,1565]" italics="true" pageId="25">Bradypus variegatus infuscatus</emphasis>
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(
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFADFFAA7745F9E783DCF9C1" bold="true" box="[892,947,1541,1565]" pageId="25">A, B,</emphasis>
AMNH 76497) and
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFADFFAA70B6F9E480BDF9E6" italics="true" pageId="25">B. v. variegatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFADFFAA74D8F9C08177F9E7" bold="true" box="[225,280,1570,1595]" pageId="25">C, D,</emphasis>
AMNH 95105). Both skulls lack the premaxillae, which are only loosely attached in bradypodid sloths and are often lost in specimen preparation. Cranial sutures are fused in AMNH 76497, whereas most sutures persist in AMNH 95105 (a younger adult); the conspicuous shape differences between these specimens, however, are not age dependent.
</paragraph>
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FIG. 8. Lateral views of skulls and mandibles of
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAEFFA97664F9D683FDF990" box="[605,914,1588,1612]" italics="true" pageId="26">Bradypus variegatus infuscatus</emphasis>
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(
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAEFFA97798F9D683D6F990" bold="true" box="[929,953,1588,1612]" pageId="26">A,</emphasis>
AMNH 76497) and
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAEFFA970ABF9D780BBF9B5" italics="true" pageId="26">B. v. variegatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAEFFA974D8F9B38098F9B5" bold="true" box="[225,247,1617,1641]" pageId="26">B,</emphasis>
AMNH 95105).
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFAFFFA87455FCD9815CFCB2" blockId="27.[108,1214,825,879]" pageId="27">
FIG. 9. Dorsal views of mandibles of
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFAFFFA875D7FCDB834BFC8D" authorityName="Wagler" authorityYear="1831" box="[494,804,825,849]" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pilosa" pageId="27" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="variegatus" subSpecies="infuscatus">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA875D7FCDB834BFC8D" box="[494,804,825,849]" italics="true" pageId="27">Bradypus variegatus infuscatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA8770AFCDB8324FC8D" bold="true" box="[819,843,825,849]" pageId="27">A,</emphasis>
AMNH 76497) and
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFAFFFA8701CFCD884D1FC8D" box="[1061,1214,826,849]" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pilosa" pageId="27" phylum="Chordata" rank="variety" species="variegatus" variety="variegatus">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA8701CFCD884D1FC8D" box="[1061,1214,826,849]" italics="true" pageId="27">B. v. variegatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA8744CFCB580E4FCB3" bold="true" box="[117,139,855,879]" pageId="27">B,</emphasis>
AMNH 95105).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFAFFFA87694FC6B845CFAA5" blockId="27.[684,1214,905,1738]" pageId="27">
Based on the geographic distribution of examined material with the morphological traits described above, it is plausible that
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA8700BFC2F82A3FBDA" italics="true" pageId="27">B. v. infuscatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the proper trinomen for this form, but without confirmatory evidence (e.g., DNA sequence data obtained from the
<typeStatus id="54F78858FFAFFFA87024FBD08413FB96" box="[1053,1148,1074,1098]" pageId="27" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
skin) it is hard to be sure. Possible junior synonyms include
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA8773CFB9783CBFB51" box="[773,932,1141,1165]" italics="true" pageId="27">brachydactylus</emphasis>
Wagner, 1855;
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA87069FB9784D3FB51" box="[1104,1212,1141,1165]" italics="true" pageId="27">macrodon</emphasis>
Thomas, 1917;
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA87768FB7583BAFB73" box="[849,981,1175,1199]" italics="true" pageId="27">codajazensis</emphasis>
Lönnberg, 1942; and
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA87695FB5A835FFB0C" box="[684,816,1208,1232]" italics="true" pageId="27">subjuruanus</emphasis>
Lönnberg, 1942 (for type localities, see Gardner, 2008). Of these nominal taxa, we have only examined the
<typeStatus id="54F78858FFAFFFA877FCFB1E8449FAC8" box="[965,1062,1276,1300]" pageId="27" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
of
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA87076FB1E84D3FAC8" box="[1103,1212,1276,1300]" italics="true" pageId="27">macrodon</emphasis>
(BMNH 80.5.6.56), which exhibits all the diagnostic craniodental traits of the western Amazonian phenotype as described above.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFAFFFAF76F5FA61830DF9C3" blockId="27.[684,1214,905,1738]" lastBlockId="28.[684,1214,1312,1733]" lastPageId="28" pageId="27">
Given the distinct morphologies associated with western Amazonian specimens on the one hand and southeastern Amazonian specimens on the other, we would be inclined to call these distinct species. However, we are provisionally using trinomial nomenclature because there are intermediate phenotypes, suggestive of intergradation, in central Amazonia. Based on specimens we examined with the morphological distinctions described and illustrated above,
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFAFFFAF706EF9508131FAE4" authority="variegatus" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" lastPageId="28" order="Pilosa" pageId="27" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="variegatus" subSpecies="variegatus">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFAF706EF9508131FAE4" italics="true" lastPageId="28" pageId="27">Bradypus variegatus variegatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
occurs along the right (south) bank of the Amazon from the vicinity of Belém westward to the left (west) bank of the Tapajós, whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFA8FFAF7517FA6681BDFA47" authorityName="Wagler" authorityYear="1831" box="[302,466,1411,1435]" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pilosa" pageId="28" phylum="Chordata" rank="variety" species="variegatus" variety="infuscatus">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA8FFAF7517FA6681BDFA47" box="[302,466,1411,1435]" italics="true" pageId="28">B. v. infuscatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
occurs in eastern
<collectingCountry id="F35B766AFFA8FFAF74AFFA46809DFA60" box="[150,242,1444,1468]" name="Ecuador" pageId="28">Ecuador</collectingCountry>
, eastern
<collectingCountry id="F35B766AFFA8FFAF7576FA4781ECFA60" box="[335,387,1445,1468]" name="Peru" pageId="28">Peru</collectingCountry>
, and southern
<collectingCountry id="F35B766AFFA8FFAF761AFA4780E5FA01" name="Venezuela" pageId="28">Venezuela</collectingCountry>
(fig. 10). Only a few specimens are available from the wide (ca.
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) central-Amazonian gap between these morphologically diagnosed taxa, but those we examined are difficult to assign with certainty to either form. For example, three BMNH specimens from Codajás (on the north bank of the upper Amazon west of Manaus; fig. 10: locality 8a) have small pseudoincisors, long nasals, narrow rostrums, and short mandibular symphyses (like
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFA8FFAF7796FAA08421FA85" box="[943,1102,1346,1369]" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pilosa" pageId="28" phylum="Chordata" rank="variety" species="variegatus" variety="variegatus">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA8FFAF7796FAA08421FA85" box="[943,1102,1346,1369]" italics="true" pageId="28">B. v. variegatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), but they have well-developed postorbital jugal processes and lack symphyseal spouts (like
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFA8FFAF7029FA6684C3FA47" authorityName="Wagler" authorityYear="1831" box="[1040,1196,1411,1435]" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pilosa" pageId="28" phylum="Chordata" rank="variety" species="variegatus" variety="infuscatus">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA8FFAF7029FA6684C3FA47" box="[1040,1196,1411,1435]" italics="true" pageId="28">B. v. infuscatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Pending a much-needed revision of the brownthroated three-toed sloth complex, trinomial nomenclature seems like the appropriately conservative option.
</paragraph>
</subSection>
</subSubSection>
<footnote id="E8572AF4FFAFFFA87455FA3F8185F915" pageId="27">
<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFAFFFA87455FA3F8185F915" blockId="27.[108,638,1501,1737]" pageId="27">
<superScript id="7C399BB2FFAFFFA87455FA3F801CFA35" attach="left" box="[108,115,1501,1513]" fontSize="5" pageId="27">2</superScript>
No original locality datum accompanies
<collectionCode id="ED5DAE3FFFAFFFA875EDFA3C8191FA2D" box="[468,510,1502,1521]" pageId="27">ZSM</collectionCode>
1162, but Spix is known to have arrived at Tabatinga on
<date id="FFF2103AFFAFFFA875E8FA14823BF9D5" box="[465,596,1526,1545]" pageId="27" value="1820-01-09">9 January 1820</date>
, and the
<typeStatus id="54F78858FFAFFFA874A9F9EC80B3F9FD" box="[144,220,1550,1569]" pageId="27" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
was collected on 14 January (A. van Heteren, personal commun., 2016).
<bibRefCitation id="EFDD4B0BFFAFFFA87577F9C481A1F9E5" author="Cabrera, A." box="[334,462,1574,1593]" pageId="27" pagination="1 - 307" refId="ref61369" refString="Cabrera, A. 1958 (&quot; 1957 &quot;). Catalogo de los mamiferos de America del Sur [part 1]. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales &quot; Bernardino Rivadavia &quot; (Ciencias Zoologicas) 4 (1): i - iv, 1 - 307." type="journal article" year="1958">Cabrera (1958)</bibRefCitation>
“restricted” the type locality of
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFAFFFA874ECF9DC81E6F98D" box="[213,393,1598,1617]" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pilosa" pageId="27" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="infuscatus">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFAFFFA874ECF9DC81E6F98D" box="[213,393,1598,1617]" italics="true" pageId="27">Bradypus infuscatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to the confluence of the Solimões (upper Amazon) and the
<collectingRegion id="4988F818FFAFFFA8759EF9B481AFF9B5" box="[423,448,1622,1641]" country="Peru" name="Ica" pageId="27">Iça</collectingRegion>
(
<collectingRegion id="4988F818FFAFFFA875F7F9B48244F9B5" box="[462,555,1622,1641]" country="Colombia" name="Putumayo" pageId="27">Putumayo</collectingRegion>
), but the confluence of the Solimões with the
<collectingRegion id="4988F818FFAFFFA87593F98C81ACF95D" box="[426,451,1646,1665]" country="Peru" name="Ica" pageId="27">Iça</collectingRegion>
is&gt;
<quantity id="4CB49B1FFFAFFFA875D1F98C8245F95D" box="[488,554,1646,1665]" metricMagnitude="5" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" pageId="27" unit="km" value="200.0">200 km</quantity>
from the Peruvian frontier, and there seems to be no evidence that
<collectionCode id="ED5DAE3FFFAFFFA8766DF9648211F945" box="[596,638,1670,1689]" pageId="27">ZSM</collectionCode>
1162 was actually collected there; Kraft (1995: 56) apparently repeated Cabrera’s error without attribution.
</paragraph>
</footnote>
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<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFA8FFAF7452FB2481EDFB25" blockId="28.[107,1210,1220,1273]" pageId="28">
FIG. 10. Collecting localities of specimens of
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFA8FFAF7678FB268362FB00" authorityName="Schinz" authorityYear="1825" box="[577,781,1220,1244]" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pilosa" pageId="28" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="variegatus">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA8FFAF7678FB268362FB00" box="[577,781,1220,1244]" italics="true" pageId="28">Bradypus variegatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
examined for this report. See appendix 3 for geographic coordinates.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection id="C3566571FFA8FFAE76F4F9CB81A5FDFF" lastPageId="29" pageId="28" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFA8FFAE76F4F9CB81B9FEA2" blockId="28.[684,1214,1312,1733]" lastBlockId="29.[108,639,226,1738]" lastPageId="29" pageId="28">ETHNOBIOLOGY: The three-toed sloth has only one name, mëinkançhuşh. It is not analyzable and there are no cognates in other Panoan languages. No subtypes are recognized by the Matses. The Matses do not hunt three-toed sloths, eat them, or keep them as pets. The Matses generally will not even look directly at them, because if a hunter looks at a three-toed sloth it can make his children ill. Therefore, the Matses know very little about the natural history of this species.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFA9FFAE74B5FE6581A5FDFF" blockId="29.[108,639,226,1738]" pageId="29">MATSES NATURAL HISTORY: The three-toed sloth is similar to the two-toed sloth, but it has three claws on its front feet, a short tail, a smaller head, a striped face, and a spotted back. Its face looks like that of a little person.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3566571FFA9FFAE74B5FDCE844AFD7B" pageId="29" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFA9FFAE74B5FDCE8147FD14" blockId="29.[108,639,226,1738]" pageId="29">
Three-toed sloths are found mostly beside rivers in stands of cecropia trees (
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA9FFAE75DAFDAC822CFDB9" box="[483,579,590,613]" italics="true" pageId="29">Cecropia</emphasis>
spp. [
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFA9FFAE744AFD8D8084FD5B" box="[115,235,623,647]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Moraceae" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="29" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Moraceae</taxonomicName>
]). They are rarely encountered in Matses territory (where large stands of cecropia trees are absent).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFA9FFAE74B5FD30810FFC53" blockId="29.[108,639,226,1738]" pageId="29">
It makes no nest. It is nocturnal and diurnal. It swims slowly but effectively across rivers. It climbs along lianas and branches upside-down. It sits in thickets. It is solitary. It eats mostly cecropia tree leaves and also eats fig-tree (
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFA9FFAE767CFCB580E5FC52" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Moraceae" genus="Ficus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="29" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA9FFAE767CFCB58213FCB2" box="[581,636,855,878]" italics="true" pageId="29">Ficus</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
[
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFA9FFAE74AEFC958166FC53" box="[151,265,887,911]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Moraceae" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="29" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Moraceae</taxonomicName>
]) fruits.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFA9FFAE74B5FC7A825DFA82" blockId="29.[108,639,226,1738]" pageId="29">REMARKS: The Matses do not have a lot to say about three-toed sloths—doubtless because this species is seldom seen and never hunted for food—and their few observations seem intended primarily to distinguish this species from the superficially similar two-toed sloth (a primary game species). This intent is explicit in the comparative phrasing of their morphological descriptions, but diagnostic comparisons are also implied by their remarks that three-toed sloths are both nocturnal and diurnal (two-toed sloths are exclusively nocturnal), and that three-toed sloths swim (whereas two-toed sloths do not, at least according to the Matses; see below).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF336FAFFA9FFAE74B4FA85844AFD7B" blockId="29.[108,639,226,1738]" lastBlockId="29.[684,1214,226,679]" pageId="29">
The widespread notion that three-toed sloths have a close relationship with trees of the genus
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA9FFAE7455FA4B80A7FA1C" box="[108,200,1449,1472]" italics="true" pageId="29">Cecropia</emphasis>
has been called a myth by Montgomery (1983), who averred that
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<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA9FFAE75AFFA288194FA3E" box="[406,507,1482,1506]" italics="true" pageId="29">Bradypus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are simply easier to see in the relatively open, sunlit crowns of cecropia trees than in the denser crowns of other tree species. However, it should be noted that Montgomery’s research on sloths (e.g., Montgomery and Sunquist, 1978) was carried out on an island with very little early-successional vegetation (the preferred seral stage of
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA9FFAE75A1F950819BF915" box="[408,500,1714,1737]" italics="true" pageId="29">Cecropia</emphasis>
spp.), where an essentially captive population of sloths may have had no choice but to forage in habitats that would have been avoided by unconstrained animals. Subsequent studies from mainland habitats seem to agree with earlier reports that young cecropia leaves are a preferred forage for
<taxonomicName id="4C4C4D79FFA9FFAE704CFE6582BFFE1C" authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1758" class="Mammalia" family="Bradypodidae" genus="Bradypus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pilosa" pageId="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B938EAE8FFA9FFAE704CFE6582BFFE1C" italics="true" pageId="29">Bradypus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, perhaps due to their low fiber content, high nutrient value, and lack of defensive secondary compounds (Urbani and Bosque, 2007). Therefore, the Matses observation that riparian stands of cecropia trees are the primary habitat of threetoed sloths merits credibility despite Montgomery’s (1983) dismissal of essentially similar observations in the older literature.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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