Check List 20(5): 1222-1258, doi: 10.15560/20.5.1222
An annotated checklist of the mammals of the Chimanimani National Park, Mozambique
Mnqobi L. Mamba‡, Ana Gledis da Conceição§, Piotr Naskrecki|, Antonio Ngovene¶, Desiré Lee Dalton#, Isa-Rita M. Russo¤, Fleur Visser«», Ara Monadjem‡«‡ University of Eswatini, Eswatini, Swaziland§ National Administration of Protected Areas of Mozambique, Maputo, Mozambique| Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique¶ Chimanimani National Park, Chimoio, Mozambique# Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom¤ Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom« University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa» University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Corresponding author: Mnqobi L. Mamba ( mambamnqobi3@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Terrence C Demos © Mnqobi L. Mamba, Ana Gledis da Conceição, Piotr Naskrecki, Antonio Ngovene, Desiré Lee Dalton, Isa-Rita M. Russo, Fleur Visser, Ara Monadjem. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Mamba ML, da Conceição AG, Naskrecki P, Ngovene A, Dalton DL, Russo IM, Visser F, Monadjem A (2024) An annotated checklist of the mammals of the Chimanimani National Park, Mozambique. Check List 20(5): 1222-1258. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.5.1222 |  |
Abstract
The Chimanimani Mountains of Mozambique and Zimbabwe harbour diverse and unique flora and fauna. Because of these unique floral characteristics, this region has received considerable attention by botanists. In contrast, the vertebrates occurring here have received little attention. The aim of this paper was to synthesise data collected on multiple recent surveys into the first annotated checklist of the mammals of the Mozambican side of the Chimanimani Mountains. We identified medium-sized and large mammals by exterior appearance, mostly as captured on camera traps. We combined morphological and molecular methods to identify small mammals, and we report on echolocation calls of some of the poorly known bat species. In total, we recorded 69 species, including 23 species of bats (Chiroptera), 15 species of rodents (Rodentia), 11 species of carnivores (Carnivora), nine species of ungulates (Cetartiodactyla), and the rest comprising Primates, Eulipotyphla, Lagomorpha, Proboscidea, and Pholidota. Of these, five species are listed as threatened, demonstrating the importance of the Chimanimani Mountains for mammalian biodiversity conservation in South Eastern Africa.
Keywords
Afromontane, biodiversity, cytochrome b, Eutheria, species inventory, specimens