Sri Lankan sloth bear
| Sri Lankan sloth bear | |
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| Male in Yala National Park | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | Ursinae |
| Genus: | Melursus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | M. u. inornatus
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| Trinomial name | |
| Melursus ursinus inornatus Pucheran, 1855
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The Sri Lankan sloth bear (Melursus ursinus inornatus) is a subspecies of the sloth bear which is found mainly in lowland dry forests in the island of Sri Lanka.