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Definition of Choloepus
1. Noun. A genus of Megalonychidae consisting of the two-toed sloth.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Megalonychidae, Megalonychidae
Member holonyms: Choloepus Didactylus, Two-toed Sloth, Unai, Unau, Choloepus Hoffmanni, Two-toed Sloth, Unai, Unau
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choloepus
Literary usage of Choloepus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Verhandlungen des X. Internationalen medicinischen Congresses v. 1: Berlin (1891)
"In Choloepus, near the anterior end of the pallium, a vertical transverse fissure
extends upwards from the rhinal fissure, and turns round the upper margin ..."
2. Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to by William Bateson (1894)
"The occurrence of normal ribs on the 7th in Choloepus and the occasional presence
of cervical ribs on the 6th vertebra in this form, even reaching nearly to ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The trapezoid and the os magnum of the carpus are united, while in Choloepus they
are perfectly distinct bones. The intestine has no caecum. ..."
4. Studies in Comparative Odontology by Arthur Swayne Underwood (1903)
"... and became gradually divided into vegetable feeders (Sloths) and animal
feeders (Ant- eaters). Choloepus, the two-toed Sloth, had the front 6—2 ..."
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