Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil

By

Oliveira, Marcela Alvares
Calouro, Armando Muniz

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-2-7

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

16

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

127--136

Subjects

Camera-trapping , hunting calendar , Interviews , line transect , protected area , species richness

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/16.1.127

 

Abstract

The medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil are inventoried. Data were collected using five methods: line transects, opportunistic sightings, camera trapping, hunting calendar, and hunting interviews. In total, 52 species belonging to 27 families were recorded; 11 species are threatened. We discuss the factors, such as hunting, that affect the occurrence of these species. In addition, we document the food taboos for Priodontes maximus (Kerr, 1792) and Dinomys branickii Peters, 1873, two threatened species. The confirmed occurrence of threatened species in the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve makes long-term studies necessary to obtain essential information for the understanding the viability of these populations.