Choloepidae, Gray, 1871

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Edentata, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 52-57 : 53

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 .