Altitudinal range extension of Long-tailed Singing Mouse, Scotinomys xerampelinus (Bangs, 1902) (Rodentia, Cricetidae), in Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica

By

Mora, José M.
García-Céspedes, Jairo
López, Lucía Isabel
Chaves, Gerardo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-3-2

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

17

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

339--345

Subjects

cloud forest , montane rain forest , Neotropics , Páramo , PÁramo , Rodents , small mammals

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/17.2.339

 

Abstract

Scotinomys xerampelinus has a restricted distribution in the Cordilleras Central and Talamanca of Costa Rica and western Panama, at an elevational range between 2100 and 3400 m. We report individuals observed at Cerro Chirripó, Costa Rica at 3820 m, which extends upwards the known elevational range by 420 m. The altitudinal range extension may indicate either incomplete surveys in the study area or an upslope shift due to increasing temperatures from climate change, a phenomenon that has forced several Costa Rican vertebrate species to transition to higher elevations.