The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Xenarthrans and Pangolins

Chloepus


Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Chloepus hoffmanni)

The range of this species comprises a pair of disjunct populations; from southern Honduras in the north, throughout Central America to northwest Venezuela and central Colombia, and from here south to west-central Ecuador; and throughout the southwest Brazilian Amazon and adjacent regions of eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru and northern Bolivia.

Five subspecies are recognised as follows:

C. h. hoffmanni - photo by @Maguari

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C. h. agustinus
C. h. capitalis - photo by @Nick@Amsterdam

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C. h. juruanus
C. h. pallescens - photo by @Giant Eland

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Linnaeus' Two-toed Sloth (Chloepus didactylus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of northern South America east of the Andes, from southeast Venezuela and the Guianas, throughout northern and central Amazonian Brazil into adjacent regions of the upper Amazon Basin in southwest Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northeast Peru.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ro6ca66

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BRADYPODIDAE


This family comprises 4 species within a single genus, as follows:

Bradypus - Three-toed Sloths (4 species)
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Bradypus


Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus)

The range of this species extends from Honduras in the north, throughout Central America to Colombia and southwest Venezuela, and south from here throughout much of northern and central South America; on the western slope of the Andes as far south as southwest Ecuador, and on the eastern slope of the Andes as far south as Paraguay, northeast Argentina and southeast Brazil. Largely absent from Venezuela, the Guianas and northeast Amazonian Brazil.

Traditionally up to nine subspecies have been recognised within this species; however, given the high level of morphological variability, wide range and lack of any clearly geographically-differentiated forms this is regarded as an area needing significant research. As such the species is currently regarded as monotypic.

Photo by @Vision

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Pygmy Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus)

Endemic to the red mangroves of Isla Escudo de Veraguas, on the Caribbean coastline of Panama.

Monotypic; the taxonomic status of this species is somewhat debated, and it may represent a subspecies of B. variegatus. No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Pale-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus tridactylus)

The range of this species extends from eastern Venezuela and the Guianas into northern Brazil, as far south as the Amazon River.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Maned Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus torquatus)

The range of this species represents a patchy and fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout the Coastal Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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MANIDAE


This family comprises 8 species within three genera, as follows:

Manis - Asiatic Pangolins (4 species)

Smutsia - African Ground Pangolins (2 species)

Phataginus - African Tree Pangolins (2 species)
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Manis


Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata)

The range of this species extends throughout the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka, as far west as northeast and southeast Pakistan and as far east as southeast Nepal and adjacent northeast India; extirpated from Bangladesh.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)

The range of this species extends from the Himalayan foothills of eastern Nepal and adjacent Bhutan and northeast India in the west to southeast China and Taiwan in the east, and south into Hainan and patchily throughout northern Indochina.

Three subspecies are currently recognised as follows:

M. p. pentadactyla - photo by @TeaLovingDave

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M. p. aurita - photo by @Maguari

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M. p. pusilla


Sunda Pangolin (Manis javanica)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout central and southern Indochina, and through the Malay Peninsula and Greater Sundas into the Lesser Sundas as far east as Lombok.

Monotypic.

Photo by @devilfish

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Palawan Pangolin (Manis culionensis)

Endemic to Palawan and adjacent offshore islands in the southwest Philippines.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Smutsia

Giant Pangolin (Smutsia gigantea)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Senegal in the west to Uganda and adjacent regions of western Kenya and northwest Tanzania in the east, and south to northwest Angola in the west, and southeast DRC and adjacent west-central Tanzania in the east.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Ground Pangolin (Smutsia temminckii)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout much of east-central and southern Africa, from eastern Chad in the west to western Ethiopia in the east, and south from here throughout eastern Africa to southern Mozambique, Swaziland and northern South Africa, and west into central Angola and Namibia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Phataginus


Black-bellied Pangolin (Phataginus tetradactyla)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Sierra Leone in the west to northeast DRC in the east, and south to western DRC and northwest Angola in the west, to east-central DRC in the east.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White-bellied Pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Guinea and Sierra Leone in the west to southwest South Sudan, Uganda and southwest Kenya in the east, and south to central Angola in the west and northwest Zambia in the east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @betsy

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And that marks not only the completion of the current Zoochat Photographic Guide, but also the completion of the Mammalian Photographic Guides overall! At this point, every single extant mammalian family has been covered in one of the threads written by @Chlidonias , @lintworm and myself - but naturally, our work has only just begun.

Not only are there still many, many bird groups remaining to be covered by official photographic guides, but there are still a vast number of photographic gaps where mammal taxa are concerned. Naturally many of these are unlikely ever to be filled, but I am certain there is plenty of scope for additions yet ;) as such, the various photographic guides will continue to be updated as often as possible. I also have a postscript or two for the project in mind, one of which I aim to roll out anon.

However, in the here and now there are a few things remaining for me to cover in this thread, to wit my usual list of all the species within the groups covered which are unrepresented within the gallery as living species. I specify living species, for in the process of writing this thread (much of which was written well over a year ago, as I rather wanted to end the mammal photographic guides with a relatively "flashy" group containing a relatively high number of photographed taxa) I noticed that an unusually large number of "unrepresented" species are represented as mounted specimens.

As such, after the usual lists I will post a little compilation of species we have good-but-deceased images for :P but don't think this means I don't want as many of these gaps filled with living animals as possible!
 
TOTAL - 20/46 species represented (43.48% representation)

DASYPODIDAE - 2/7 species represented (28.57% representation)

Northern Long-nosed Armadillo (Dasypus sabanicola)
Greater Long-nosed Armadillo (Dasypus kappleri)
Brazilian Long-nosed Armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus)
Hairy Long-nosed Armadillo (Dasypus pilosus)
Yungas Long-nosed Armadillo (Dasypus mazzai)


CHLAMYPHORIDAE - 8/13 species represented (61.54% representation)

Pichi (Zaedyus pichiy)
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Lesser Fairy Armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus)
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Greater Fairy Armadillo (Calyptophractus retusus)
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Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo (Cabassous centralis)
Chacoan Naked-tailed Armadillo (Cabassous chacoensis)


MYRMECOPHAGIDAE - 3/3 species represented (100.00% representation)


CYCLOPEDIDAE - 1/7 species represented (14.29% representation)

Central American Silky Anteater (Cyclopes dorsalis)
Common Silky Anteater (Cyclopes didactylus)
Rio Negro Silky Anteater (Cyclopes ida)
Red Silky Anteater (Cyclopes rufus)
Xingu Silky Anteater (Cyclopes xinguensis)
Amboro Silky Anteater (Cyclopes catellus)


MEGALONYCHIDAE - 2/2 species represented (100.00% representation)


BRADYPODIDAE - 1/4 species represented (25.00% representation)

Pygmy Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus)
Pale-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus tridactylus)
Maned Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus torquatus)


MANIDAE - 3/8 species represented (37.50% representation)

Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata)
Palawan Pangolin (Manis culionensis)
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Giant Pangolin (Smutsia gigantea)
Ground Pangolin (Smutsia temminckii)
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Black-bellied Pangolin (Phataginus tetradactyla)
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MUSEUM SPECIMENS OF NOTE:


Lesser Fairy Armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus)

Photo by @Giant Eland (Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History)

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Silky Anteater (Cyclopes sp.)

Photo by @Sarus Crane (Harvard Museum of Natural History)

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Photo by @Fishapod (Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences Zoological Institute)

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Maned Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus torquatus)

Photo by @Javan Rhino (Manchester Museum)

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Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata)

Photo by @UngulateNerd92 (World Museum of Natural History)

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Giant Pangolin (Smutsia gigantea)

Photo by @Giant Eland (Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History)

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Ground Pangolin (Smutsia temminckii)

Photo by @Nanook (Portsmouth Natural History Museum)

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Black-bellied Pangolin (Phataginus tetradactyla)

Photo by @Fishapod (Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences Zoological Institute)

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