First record of the naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous sp.) at Tijuca National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ABSTRACT

During a study to characterize the medium and large-sized mammal community of the Tijuca National Park (3953 ha; Rio de Janeiro state), we registered for the first time the naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous sp.). From April to September 2016, 42 camera-traps were set in the area, resulting in a total effort of 4302 trap-days. From the 1434 independent records obtained, five were of Cabassous sp. Two species of naked-tailed armadillo occur in Brazil, C. tatouay and C. unicinctus. Both of their distribution limits are uncertain and Cabassous C. tatouay is considered data deficient. Unfortunately, it was not possible to identify precisely the species.

KEYWORDS:

• Atlantic Forest
• camera-trap
• Cingulata
• distribution
• Xenarthra

Acknowledgments

We thank the infrastructure and field team from Tijuca National Park (ICMBio) for their help. We thank Fernando Fernandez for his support. We also thank Danilo Kluyber, Martin Alvarez, Agustín Abba, Mariella Superina and Teresa Cristina Anacleto for their help in identifying the species.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica, CNPq, FAPERJ and Fundação Grupo Boticário. Alexandra Pires receives a CNPq fellowship [309505/2015-1]. Coordenação Central de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa (CCPG) of PUC-Rio provided scholarship for Miguel Monteiro.