Check List 11(5): e19341, doi: 10.15560/11.5.1742
Range extension and first record of Euryzygomatomys spinosus (Rodentia, Echimyidae) in the Brazilian Cerrado
expand article infoAna Carolina Loss‡, Marco Aurélio C. Pacheco§, Yuri Luiz Reis Leite‡, Vilacio Caldara-Junior|, Leonardo G. Lessa§
‡ Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil§ Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Brazil| Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Espírito Santo, Brazil

Corresponding author: Leonardo Lessa ( leoglessa@hotmail.com )

© 2017 Ana Loss, Marco Aurélio Pacheco, Yuri Luiz Leite, Vilacio Caldara-Junior, Leonardo Lessa.
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Citation: Lessa L, Loss A, Pacheco M, Caldara-Junior V, Leite Y (2015) Range extension and first record of Euryzygomatomys spinosus (Rodentia, Echimyidae) in the Brazilian Cerrado. Check List 11(5): 1742. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.5.1742
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Abstract
We present herein the first record of Euryzygomatomys spinosus (G. Fischer, 1814) in the Brazilian Cerrado, based on two adult male specimens collected in a “campo limpo” (dry grassland) area at Sempre Vivas National Park, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, in June and August 2014. This taxon was previously known only from the Brazilian Pampas, Paraguayan Chaco Humedo and Atlantic Forest of southeastern and southern Brazil, northeastern Argentina and southern Paraguay.  Our records increased the species geographic range 250 km northward, into the Cerrado ecoregion.
Keywords
campo limpo; geographical range; Mammalia; savanna