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Title: The Subspecific Status of Two Central American Sloths

Author: E. Raymond Hall
Keith R. Kelson

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The Subspecific Status of Two Central American Sloths

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL and KEITH R. KELSON

University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History

Volume 5, No. 24, pp. 313-317 November 21, 1952

University of Kansas LAWRENCE 1952

University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, Edward H. Taylor,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 5, No. 24, pp. 313-317 November 21, 1952

University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1952

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The Subspecific Status of Two Central American Sloths

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL and KEITH R. KELSON

New name combinations for two kinds of Central American sloths that
heretofore have stood in the literature as nominal species are given
below, along with the evidence supporting their relegation to
subspecific rank. Research assistance has been provided from a contract
(NR 161-791) between the Office of Naval Research, Department of the
Navy, and the University of Kansas.

~Bradypus griseus ignavus~ Goldman

Goldman (Smiths. Misc. Coll., 60(22):1, February 28, 1913) named the
three-toed sloth from extreme eastern Panama (Marraganti: 1 specimen,
the type) and northwestern Colombia (Atrato River: 2 specimens) as
_Bradypus ignavus_. He characterized the newly-named species as
differing from _Bradypus griseus_ (type locality Cordillera de Chucu,
Veragua, Panama) and _Brady