Parocnus serus Miller, 1929:29
Greater Haitian ground sloth
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: “Megalocuus sp.” (lapsus calami) (Miller, 1922)
Megalocnus zile is considered a junior synonym of P. serus by (McAfee & Beery, 2021).
Conservation Status
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Hispaniola
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.
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]
Steadman, David W. et al. (2005). Asynchronous extinction of late Quaternary sloths on continents and islands. PNAS 102(33): 11763-11768.
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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