Check List 14(5): 839-843, doi: 10.15560/14.5.839
Range extension of Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo, Cabassous centralis Miller, 1899 (Mammalia, Cingulata, Chlamyphoridae), in Belize
Vivian Ruth Soriero‡§, Rebecca Louise Wooldridge‡§, Bart Johannes Harmsen‡§, Mathieu Charette|, Vanessa Kilburn|, Rebecca Jacqueline Foster‡‡ Panthera, Belmopan, Belize§ University of Belize Environmental Research Institute, Belmopan, Belize| Toucan Ridge Ecology and Education Society, Stann Creek, Belize
Corresponding author: Rebecca Louise Wooldridge ( r_wooldridge@hotmail.co.uk ) Academic editor: Terrence C Demos © 2018 Vivian Ruth Soriero, Rebecca Louise Wooldridge, Bart Johannes Harmsen, Mathieu Charette, Vanessa Kilburn, Rebecca Jacqueline Foster. 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:
Soriero VR, Wooldridge RL, Harmsen BJ, Charette M, Kilburn V, Foster RJ (2018) Range extension of Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo, Cabassous centralis Miller, 1899 (Mammalia, Cingulata, Chlamyphoridae), in Belize. Check List 14(5): 839-843. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.5.839 |  |
Abstract
Little is known about the Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo, Cabassous centralis (Miller, 1899). Here we present a new record of C. centralis in the Maya Mountain Massif of Belize, from camera-trap surveys covering an area of 200 km2 conducted yearly between 2002 and 2017 in lowland tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, and a dead specimen found adjacent to a highway. The record presented constitutes a range expansion of ca 65 km for C. centralis in Belize. This adds valuable data about a species for which the geographic distribution is poorly known.
Keywords
Geographical distribution; new occurrence; broadleaf forest; Neotropics; mammal; camera-trap