Coendou speratus Mendes Pontes, Gadelha, Melo, Sá, Loss, Caldara Jr., Costa &amp; Leite, 2013 (Mammalia, Rodentia, Erethizontidae) in northeastern Brazil: filling gaps in its geographical distribution

Anna Ludmilla Nascimento; Janisson dos Santos

doi:10.15560/10.5.1223

Check List 10(5): 1223-1225, doi: 10.15560/10.5.1223

Coendou speratus Mendes Pontes, Gadelha, Melo, Sá, Loss, Caldara Jr., Costa & Leite, 2013 (Mammalia, Rodentia, Erethizontidae) in northeastern Brazil: filling gaps in its geographical distribution

Anna Ludmilla da Costa Pinto Nascimento^‡, Janisson Willames dos Santos^‡

‡ Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Museu de História Natural, Brazil

Corresponding author: Anna Ludmilla Nascimento ( ludmillacpn@gmail.com )

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Citation: Nascimento A, dos Santos J (2014) Coendou speratus Mendes Pontes, Gadelha, Melo, Sá, Loss, Caldara Jr., Costa & Leite, 2013 (Mammalia, Rodentia, Erethizontidae) in northeastern Brazil: filling gaps in its geographical distribution. Check List 10(5): 1223-1225. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.5.1223

Abstract

Coendou speratus Mendes Pontes, Gadelha, Melo, Sá, Loss, Caldara Jr., Costa & Leite, 2013 is a recently described Neotropical prehensile-tailed porcupine from the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. It is known only from the Pernambuco Centre of Endemism. Here we present a new locality record, in the Estação Ecológica Murici (ESEC Murici), Municipality of Murici, Alagoas State, Brazil, 105 km southeast of the type locality and 60 km west from the closest record (from more than 50 yr ago), in Municipality of Viçosa, also in Alagoas State.

Keywords

Rodentia; porcupine; Atlantic forest