Melursus Meyer, 1793

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 337

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Melursus Meyer, 1793 View in CoL . Zool. Entdeck., p. 155.

TYPE SPECIES: Melursus lybius Meyer, 1793 View in CoL (= Bradypus ursinus Shaw, 1791 View in CoL ), by monotypy ( Melville and Smith, 1987).

COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1932b). See comments under Helarctos concerning the relationship between these taxa.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Ursidae

Melursus Meyer, 1793

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993

1993

Melursus

Meyer 1793: 155

1793

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