Check List 17(5): 1421-1437, doi: 10.15560/17.5.1421
Medium-sized and large mammals of the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, a protected area in southeastern Brazil
expand article infoSandro Leonardo Leonardo Alves‡, Jeferson de Paula Miranda§, Paulo Sérgio do Nascimento Furtado|, Fúlvia Cristiny Tereza Nelis, Hugo Leonardo Domingues de Paula#, Samuel de Almeida Rocha, Suênia Cristine Campos¤, Pâmella Montine Souza Martins Amaral Ferreira#, Gabriel Magalhães Tavares«, Márcia Valéria da Fonseca Porto#
‡ Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Volta Redonda, Brazil§ Consórcio Centro de Educação Superior à Distância do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Polo Prof. Darcy Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Volta Redonda, Brazil| Independent researcher, Ubatuba, Brazil¶ Programa de Pós-graduação em Tecnologia Ambiental, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda, Brazil# Independent researcher, Volta Redonda, Brazil¤ Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil« Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil

Corresponding author: Sandro Leonardo Alves ( alves.sandroleo@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Guilherme Garbino
© Sandro Leonardo Alves, Jeferson de Paula Miranda, Paulo Sérgio do Nascimento Furtado, Fúlvia Cristiny Tereza Nelis, Hugo Leonardo Domingues de Paula, Samuel de Almeida Rocha, Suênia Cristine Campos, Pâmella Montine Souza Martins Amaral Ferreira, Gabriel Magalhães Tavares, Márcia Valéria da Fonseca Porto.
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Citation: Alves SLL, Miranda JP, Furtado PSN, Nelis FCT, Paula HLD, Rocha SA, Campos SC, Ferreira PMSMA, Tavares GM, Porto MVF (2021) Medium-sized and large mammals of the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest, a protected area in southeastern Brazil. Check List 17(5): 1421-1437. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.5.1421
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Abstract
The Atlantic Forest is one of the most biodiverse biomes in the world and has been severely degraded and fragmented, with the extirpation of most medium-sized and large vertebrates from the forest remnants. Here we present the results of a survey of medium-sized and large mammals in an area of protected seasonal semideciduous forest, the Floresta da Cicuta Area of Relevant Ecological Interest (ARIE-FC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, part the Atlantic Forest biome. We used camera traps (2,257 camera days) and direct observations over a 23-month period. We recorded 19 species (including two domestic species), seven of which are classified as at-risk, such as Leopardus guttulus (Hensel, 1872), Sylvilagus tapetillus Thomas, 1913, Alouatta clamitans Cabrera, 1940, and Chrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger, 1815). A diverse terrestrial mammal assemblage in the ARIE-FC reinforces the importance of small forest fragments for the conservation of biodiversity in human-modified landscapes of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
Keywords
Atlantic Forest, camera traps, mammal survey, Rio de Janeiro, seasonal semideciduous forest, species inventory, threatened species