Mammals of a forest fragment in Cambuci municipality, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

By

Albuquerque, Hermano Gomes.
Martins, Paula Ferreira
Pessôa, Flávia Soares
Modesto, Thiago Carvalho
Luz, Júlia Lins
Raíces, Daniel S. L.
Ardente, Natalia Carneiro
Lessa, Isadora Cristina Motta
Attias, Nina
Jordão-Nogueira, Tássia
Enrici, Maria Carlota
Bergallo, Helena de Godoy.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2013-11-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

9

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

1505--1509

Subjects

Atlantic forest , Brazil , mammalia , range extension , Rio de Janeiro state , species inventory

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/9.6.1505

 

Abstract

The Atlantic Forest is considered a hotspot due to its current state of vast degradation and high indexes of biodiversity. This biome has been degraded through the years by processes resulting from the Brazilian socioeconomic model of development. The seasonal semi-deciduous Atlantic Forest is a poorly studied phytophysiognomy specially degraded by human activities in the state of Rio de Janeiro. In the present study we report the results of a rapid mammalian inventory conducted in the municipality of Cambuci, in a fragment of seasonal semi-deciduous forest. We used live traps and pitfall traps to capture non-volant small mammals, and mist-nets of different lengths to collect bats. To sample medium and large-sized mammals we used camera traps. We recorded 27 mammal species in the region, of which 16 are volant mammals. We emphasize the distribution extension of Trinomys setosus in 150 km (that enabled its insertion in the species list of Rio de Janeiro) and the capture of Lonchophylla peracchii, a recently described species apparently restricted to Atlantic Forest. Both facts show the importance of the fragment for the region biodiversity.