Check List 13(6): 711-726, doi: 10.15560/13.6.711
Inventory of medium-sized and large mammals in the wetlands of Laguna de Terminos and Pantanos de Centla, Mexico
Mircea G. Hidalgo-Mihart‡, Fernando M. Contreras-Moreno‡, Alejandro Jesús-de la Cruz‡, Rugieri Juárez-López‡, Yaribeth Bravata de la Cruz‡, Luz A. Pérez-Solano§, Carolina Hernández-Lara§, Diana Friedeberg|, Dan Thornton¶, Juan M. Koller-González‡‡ Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Villahermosa, Mexico§ Red de Biología y Conservación de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ecología A.C., Xalapa, Mexico| Panthera, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico¶ Washington State University, Pullman, United States of America
Corresponding author: Mircea G. Hidalgo-Mihart ( mhidalgo@yahoo.com ) Academic editor: Guilherme Garbino © 2017 Mircea G. Hidalgo-Mihart, Fernando M. Contreras-Moreno, Alejandro Jesús-de la Cruz, Rugieri Juárez-López, Yaribeth Bravata de la Cruz, Luz A. Pérez-Solano, Carolina Hernández-Lara, Diana Friedeberg, Dan Thornton, Juan M. Koller-González. 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:
Hidalgo-Mihart MG, Contreras-Moreno FM, Jesús-de la Cruz A, Juárez-López R, Bravata de la Cruz Y, Pérez-Solano LA, Hernández-Lara C, Friedeberg D, Thornton D, Kohler-González JM (2017) Inventory of medium-sized and large mammals in the wetlands of Laguna de Terminos and Pantanos de Centla, Mexico. Check List 13(6): 711-726. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.711 |  |
Abstract
Wetlands are one of the most productive ecosystems in the world. However, they have received little attention in the tropics. Biodiversity data from the Terminos-Centla wetlands is limited despite the conservation efforts to protect these wetlands. In this study we list the medium-szied and large mammals from 8 sites within the Terminos-Centla wetlands. We recorded 30 native and 1 introduced species, representing 9 orders, 14 families, and 27 genera. Four of the recorded species are Threatened, 9 Endangered, and 1 under special protection under Mexican legislation. Compared with other sites of southeastern Mexico, the area of the Terminos-Centla wetlands has a many more species. Our results highlight the Terminos-Centla wetlands as one of the most important systems of Mesoamerica for the medium-sized and large mammals and and underlines the urgent need to develop conservation strategies for the area.
Keywords
Tabasco; Campeche; Natural Protected Areas; deforestation; inventories