Check List 9(6): 1505-1509, doi: 10.15560/9.6.1505
Mammals of a forest fragment in Cambuci municipality, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
expand article infoHermano Gomes Albuquerque‡, Paula Ferreira Martins‡, Flávia Soares Pessôa‡, Thiago Carvalho Modesto‡, Júlia Lins Luz§, Daniel S. L. Raíces‡, Natalia Carneiro Ardente‡, Isadora Cristina Motta Lessa‡, Nina Attias‡, Tássia Jordão-Nogueira‡, Maria Carlota Enrici‡, Helena de Godoy Bergallo‡
‡ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil§ Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Corresponding author: Hermano Albuquerque ( hermanouerj@yahoo.com.br )

© 2017 Hermano Albuquerque, Paula Martins, Flávia Pessôa, Thiago Modesto, Júlia Luz, Daniel Raíces, Natalia Ardente, Isadora Lessa, Nina Attias, Tássia Jordão-Nogueira, Maria Enrici, Helena Bergallo.
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Citation: Albuquerque H, Attias N, Martins P, Ardente N, Enrici M, Pessôa F, Modesto T, Lessa I, Luz J, Jordão-Nogueira T, Raíces D, Bergallo H (2013) Mammals of a forest fragment in Cambuci municipality, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Check List 9(6): 1505-1509. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.6.1505
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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.
Keywords
Mammalia; Atlantic Forest; Brazil; Rio de Janeiro state; species inventory; range extension