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Sloth Bear; Rentang waktu: Akhir Pliosen hingga Awal Pleistosen – Kini
	Beruang Sloth yang terkurung di Taman Zoologi Nasional Smithsonian, Washington, DC.
Status konservasi
	; Rentan (IUCN 3.1)
Klasifikasi ilmiah
Kerajaan:	Animalia
Filum:	Chordata
Kelas:	Mammalia
Ordo:	Carnivora
Famili:	Ursidae
Genus:	Melursus
Spesies:	M. ursinus
Nama binomial
	Melursus ursinus; (Shaw, 1791)
Sinonim
	Melursus lybius Meyer, 1793; Bradypus ursinus Shaw, 1791;

Beruang Sloth (Melursus ursinus) adalah salah satu spesies beruang arboreal, nokturnal dan insektivora yang berasal dari subbenua India.

Penamaan dan etimologi

Pada mulanya dipikirkan terkait dengan sloth Amerika Selatan, Shaw and Nodder pada tahun 1791 menyebutnya Bradypus ursinus mencatat bahwa ia seperti beruang tetapi diberikan beban dengan cakar panjang dan tidak adanya gigi seri tengah atas. Meyer (1793) identified it as a bear and called it Melursus lybius and in 1817, de Blainville called it Ursus labiatus because of the long lips. Iliger called it Prochilus hirsutus, the Greek genus name indicating long lips while the specific name noted its long and coarse hair. Fischer called it Chondrorhynchus hirsutus while Tiedemann called it Ursus longirostris.^[2]

Nama Lokal

bahasa Bengali: Bhalluk^[3]
Kannada: ಕರಡಿ Karadi and 'bahasa Tamil: Kardi or கரடி, Karadi^[3]
Gond: Yerid, Yedjal and Asol^[3]
bahasa Hindi: Rinch, Bhalu and Adam-zad^[3]
bahasa Marathi: Aswal, अस्वल^[3]
Kol: Bana^[3]
bahasa Malayalam: Pani karudi^[3]
Oraon: Bir Mendi^[3]
Sanskrit: Riksha, Bhalluka^[3]
bahasa Telugu: ఎలుగుబంటి^[3]
bahasa Sinhala: Walaha, වලසා^[4]
bahasa Gujarat: Rinchh^[3]

Rujukan

^ Garshelis, D.L., Ratnayeke S. & Chauhan, N.P.S. (2008). "Melursus ursinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Diakses tanggal 26 January 2009. Listed as Vulnerable (VU A2cd+4cd, C1 v3.1)
^ Owen, R (1833). "The Labiated Bear". The Zoological Magazine. Number 3: 81–85.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k US.Archive.org, Sterndale's Mammalia of India, A New and Abridged Edition, thoroughly revised and with an Appendix on the Reptilia by Frank Finn, B.A., F.Z.S. Late Deputy Superintendent Indian Museum, Calcutta, 1929
^ IAR.org.uk^{[pranala nonaktif]}

Pranala luar

Field Trip Earth - Field Trip Earth is a conservation education website operated by the North Carolina Zoological Society.
Sloth Bear at Animal Diversity Web

[iucn-1] Garshelis, D.L., Ratnayeke S. & Chauhan, N.P.S. (2008). "Melursus ursinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Diakses tanggal 26 January 2009. Listed as Vulnerable (VU A2cd+4cd, C1 v3.1)

[2] Owen, R (1833). "The Labiated Bear". The Zoological Magazine. Number 3: 81–85.

[india-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k US.Archive.org, Sterndale's Mammalia of India, A New and Abridged Edition, thoroughly revised and with an Appendix on the Reptilia by Frank Finn, B.A., F.Z.S. Late Deputy Superintendent Indian Museum, Calcutta, 1929

[4] IAR.org.uk^{[pranala nonaktif]}

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Sloth Bear Rentang waktu: Akhir Pliosen hingga Awal Pleistosen – Kini

Beruang Sloth yang terkurung di Taman Zoologi Nasional Smithsonian, Washington, DC.
Status konservasi
Rentan (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Klasifikasi ilmiah
Kerajaan:	Animalia
Filum:	Chordata
Kelas:	Mammalia
Ordo:	Carnivora
Famili:	Ursidae
Genus:	Melursus
Spesies:	M. ursinus
Nama binomial
*Melursus ursinus* (Shaw, 1791)
Sinonim
Melursus lybius Meyer, 1793 Bradypus ursinus Shaw, 1791