Record of the Giant Otter, Pteronura brasiliensis (Zimmermann, 1780), (Carnivora: Mustelidae) in a fragmented landscape of Maranhão state, Brazil

By

Prist, Paula Ribeiro
Dornas, Rubem
Dos Santos, Raphael Hipólito
Torres, Leonardo Gabriel Campos
Lima, Estevão Luis Pereira

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017-1-24

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

13

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

2041--4

Subjects

Amazon , Buriticupu , distribution range , Endangered species , new record , Pindaré River

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/13.1.2041

 

Abstract

Three individuals of the endangered Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) were sighted in a small river in the municipality of Buriticupu, Maranhão state, Brazil. Information on the distribution of this species is contradictory, with some authors ignoring while others confirming the presence of this species in this state, but only in the Rebio do Gurupi region. We document the presence of this species in Maranhão state, outside the Rebio do Gurupi area. Our record of P. brasiliensis expands the known regional distribution 290 km eastwards from the closest previously known occurrence.