A curelom is an animal mentioned, together with the cumom, in the text of the Book of Mormon: Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints edition) The Book of Mormon is one of four sacred texts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Holy Bible, Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrine and Covenants also...

And they also had horses, and asses, and there were elephants and cureloms and cumoms; all of which were useful unto man, and more especially the elephants and cureloms and cumoms. (Ether 9:19)

According to Mormon belief, Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from an ancient language. In this line of thinking, the words curelom and cumom were transliterated instead of translated, meaning that while the ancient word is roughly transmitted, the actual animal intended is ambiguous. The context may imply beasts of burden. Some Mormons have speculated about what the terms refer to, including: Horses: the meat of kings!!! ... Binomial name Equus asinus Linnaeus, 1758 The donkey, a. ... Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas recki † Stegodon † Mammuthus † Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of animals, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea. ... A cumom is an animal mentioned in the text of the Book of Mormon (Ether 9:19). ... Daguerreotype which some experts believe to be an original 1843 photograph of Joseph Smith, Jr. ... Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one system of writing into another. ...

• Mastodons or mammoths. Early Mormon apostle Orson Pratt identified cureloms as mammoths in the Journal of Discourses (12:339-340).
• A yet undiscovered, probably extinct species.
• Some other South/Central American animal species with which Joseph was unfamiliar such as the llama, alpaca, tapir, or jaguar. For a Mormon view on the possibility of renaming animals in the Book of Mormon, see this article on fairlds.org.

Modern paleontologists contend that mastodons and mammoths became extinct thousands of years before the time when the Book of Mormon is set. A Mastodon skeleton in museum in Bismarck, North Dakota. ... Species Mammuthus columbi Columbian mammoth Mammuthus exilis Pygmy mammoth Mammuthus jeffersonii Jeffersonian mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis Mammuthus primigenius Wooly mammoth A mammoth (from Russian мамонт) is any of a number of an extinct genus of elephant, often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. ... The Twelve Apostles (in Koine Greek απόστολος apostolos [1], someone sent forth/sent out, an emissary) were probably Galilean Jewish men (10 names are Aramaic, 4 names are Greek) chosen from among the disciples, who were sent forth by Jesus of Nazareth... Orson Pratt Orson Pratt (September 19, 1811 – October 3, 1881) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. ... The Journal of Discourses (often abbreviated J.o. ... Commonly, Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ... Binomial name Lama glama (Linnaeus, 1758) The Llama (Lama glama) is a large camelid native to South America. ... Binomial name Lama pacos (Linnaeus, 1758) The Alpaca is one of two domesticated breeds of South American camel-like ungulates, derived from the wild guanaco. ... Species Tapirus bairdii Tapirus indicus Tapirus pinchaque Tapirus terrestris Tapirus yanivicus The tapirs are large, browsing animals, roughly pig-like in shape but with a short, prehensile trunk. ... Binomial name Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758) The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large member of the cat family found primarily in the warm regions of the Americas. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ...

Curelom references are a popular inside joke in the online ex-Mormon community. An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ... Exmormonism is a term used to describe the community of former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or other sects of Mormonism. ...