Paola Cardias Soares‡, Lara Modesto Mendes‡, Rodolfo da Cunha Sarcinelli‡, Kleiber José Vaz de Melo Barbosa‡, Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo‡Corresponding author: Paola Cardias Soares ( paola.soares@ufv.br ) Academic editor: Guilherme Garbino © Paola Cardias Soares, Lara Modesto Mendes, Rodolfo da Cunha Sarcinelli, Kleiber José Vaz de Melo Barbosa, Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo. 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:
Soares PC, Mendes LM, Sarcinelli RC, Barbosa KJCM, Melo FR (2023) First record of the threatened Giant Anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758 (Xenarthra, Myrmecophagidae), at the Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Poço Fundo in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Check List 19(1): 35-40. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.1.35 |  |
Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758, Giant Anteater, is a very sensitive species in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, a region of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais responsible for a large part of the country’s iron ore production. Information on the occurrence of this species in the area is limited to literature reviews, data papers, and interviews. Here, we present the first record of M. tridactyla from the Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Poço Fundo (a natural heritage private reserve) and what is likely to be only the fifth record from the Quadrilátero Ferrífero region. We highlight the importance of larger, connected areas for the long-term survival of this threat-ened species.