EDENTATA: BRADYPODIDAE 133 



1880. Bradypus castaneiceps Alston, Mammalia, vol. 1, p. 184, December 1880, 



in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali-Americana; .... 

 1884. Bradypus castaneiceps True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29), p. 588, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1946. Bradypus griseus castaneiceps Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 87, p. 352, Dec. 31, 1946. 

 Type Locality. — Woods surrounding Javali gold mine in Chontales District, 

 Nicaragua. Altitude, 2,000 feet. Range. — From Jimenez, northeastern Costa 

 Rica, north through lowlands of Nicaragua to Patuca in eastern Honduras. 



Bradypus griseus ignavus Goldmanf * 



1913. Bradypus ignavus Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 22, 



p. 1, Feb. 28, 1913. 

 1952. Bradypus griseus ignavus Hall and Kelson, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 5, No. 24, p. 315, Nov. 21, 1952. 

 Type Locality. — Marraganti (about 2 miles above Real de Santa Maria) , near 

 head of tidewater on Rio Tuyra, Darien, Eastern Panama. Range. — Eastern 

 Panama (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 5, p. 58, Apr. 26. 1920) . 



Genus CHOLOEPUS Illiger (two-toed sloths) 

 1811. Choloepus Illiger, Prodromus systematis Mammalium et Avium . . . , 

 p. 108. (Type, Bradypus didactylus Linnaeus.) 



Choloepus hoffmanni Peters* 



1858. Choloepus hoffmanni Peters, Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1858, 

 p. 128. 



1884.. Cholopus hoffmani True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29) , 

 p. 588, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — Costa Rica (restricted to Escazu, San Jose, Costa Rica, by 

 Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 87, p. 353, Dec. 31, 1946) . Range.— 

 From Nicaragua (J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 24, p. 648, Oct. 13, 

 1908) southward through Costa Rica (Goodwin, loc. cit.) and Panama (Gold- 

 man, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 59-60, Apr. 26, 1920) to Colom- 

 bia. Vertical range from near sea level to 6,900 feet at Boquete, Panama 

 (Enders, Journ. Mamm., vol. 21, No. 1, p. 5, Feb. 15, 1940) . 



Superfamily DASYPODOIDEA (armadillos) 



Family Dasypodidae 



Subfamily cabassouinae 



Genus CABASSOUS McMurtrie 



1831. Cabassous McMurtrie, The animal kingdom ... by the Baron Cuvier, 

 vol. 1, p. 164. (Type, Dasypus unicinctus Linnaeus. For use of Cabassous 

 in place of the preoccupied Xenurus Wagler, Natiirliches System . . . , p. 

 36, August 1830, see Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, p. 71, 

 Sept. 28, 1899.) 



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