Megalocnus zile MacPhee, White & Woods, 2000:7
Large Ile Tortue sloth
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Megalocuus sp. (lapsus calami) (Miller, 1922)
M. zile is considered a junior synonym of Parocnus serus by (McAfee & Beery, 2021; McDonald, 2023).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Quaternary
Distribution
Hispaniola
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: UF 169930 ("scapula, left side")
Type locality: "Trou Gallery, Îlede la Tortue, Département du Nord-Ouest,Haiti"
Media
References
Original scientific description:
MacPhee, R. D. E., White, Jennifer L. and Woods, Charles A. (2000). New Megalonychid Sloths (Phyllophaga, Xenarthra) from the Quaternary of Hispaniola. American Museum Novitates, No. 3303, 32 pp.
Other references:
Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Mancina, Carlos A., Woods, Charles A. and Kilpatrick, C. William. (2012). Checklist: Updated Checklist of Endemic Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies, pp. 389-415. In: Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Woods, Charles A. and Sergile, F. E. (eds.). Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History and Wacahoota Press. 482 pp.
Gaudin, T. (2004). Phylogenetic relationships among sloths (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Tardigrada): the craniodental evidence. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140: 255-305.
McAfee, Robert K. and Beery, Sophia M. (2021). Intraspecific variation of Megalonychid sloths from Hispaniola and the taxonomic implications. Historical Biology 33(3): 371-386. [Abstract]
McDonald, H. Gregory. (2023). A Tale of Two Continents (and a Few Islands): Ecology and Distribution of Late Pleistocene Sloths. Land 12(6): 1192. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061192
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Past and present of insular Caribbean mammals: understanding Holocene extinctions to inform modern biodiversity conservation. Journal of Mammalogy 98(4): 913-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx079
White, J. L. and MacPhee, R. D. E. (2001). The Sloths of the West Indies: A Systematic and Phylogenetic Review, pp. 201-236. In: Woods, C. A. and Sergile, F. E. Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.
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