Different Types Of Sloths: Sloth Species List With Pictures & Facts
A complete guide to the different types of sloths, with pictures, species descriptions, and conservation information.
Different Types Of Sloths
There are six species of sloths; divided between two families: Bradypodidae, the three-toed sloths; and Choloepodidae, the two-toed sloths.
There are four three-toed sloth species: the brown-throated sloth, maned sloth, pale-throated sloth and pygmy three-toed sloth.
There are two two-toed sloth species: Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth and Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth.
New Sloth Species?
A seventh sloth species, the southern maned sloth (Bradypus crinitus), a species of three-toed sloth, was identified in a paper published in 2022 (link).
At the time of writing (August 2023), however, the southern maned sloth is yet to be included in either the Mammal Species of the World database (link) or the Catalogue of Life…