The Giant Tree Rat, Toromys grandis (Wagner, 1845): new record with range extension and comments on its morphology, biology and conservation
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Edson Fiedler de Abreu-Júnior
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Jacob Daniel Charters
Abstract
We present data on a new record of Toromys grandis, a species not sampled for almost 60 years. The species is known from the newly-collected specimen and 206 specimens housed in museums worldwide. The gut morphology, consisting of very long intestines and well-developed caecum, suggest that T. grandis is a potential herbivore also adapted to omnivory. Our record at the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (RDS) Piagaçu-Purus extends the range of T. grandis approximately 150 km southwestward and represents the second record of the species within a protected area.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful for the financial support provided by the American Society of Mammalogists through the Latin American Student Field Research Award and by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) through the PhD fellowship, both to E.F. Abreu-Júnior; to Cristiano Neves de Oliveira and Maria do Carmo for logistical and bureaucratic support at RDS Piagaçu-Purus; to people who hosted us and helped us during the field work: Padre, Noca, Barbozinha and Bengala; to our field work assistants: Faris, Berge, Prefeito, and Bengala; to Eduardo Von Mühlen and Heloisa Brum to introducing the region to us and for the logistical support in the field; to Jeronymo Dalapicolla and Ana Carolina Pavan for checking specimens housed at the MPEG and AMNH, respectively. We are also thankful to Gilson E. Iack Ximenes for sharing with us valuable information on this species and to Louise H. Emmons for critically reviewing the manuscript and providing important suggestions, both on the English language and scientific contents.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Ecology
- Large mammal richness in Llanganates National Park, Ecuador
- Microhabitat structure and food availability modelling a small mammal assemblage in restored riparian forest remnants
- Determinants of home range size and spatial overlap of Gracilinanus agilis (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in central-western Brazil
- Autumn food habits of the brown bear Ursus arctos in the Golestan National Park: a pilot study in Iran
- Frugivory and potential seed dispersal by the exotic-invasive marmoset Callithrix jacchus (Primates, Callitrichidae) in an urban Atlantic Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Trap type and positioning: how to trap Savi’s pine voles using the tunnel system
- Ethology
- Allosuckling in a captive group of wild cavies Cavia aperea
- Biogeography
- Biogeographic implications of small mammals from Northern Highlands in Tanzania with first data from the volcanic Mount Kitumbeine
- Phylogeography of a widespread sub-Saharan murid rodent Aethomys chrysophilus: the role of geographic barriers and paleoclimate in the Zambezian bioregion
- Taxonomy/phylogeny
- First record of Dermanura anderseni (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) for the Atlantic Forest
- Evolutionary biology
- A Quaternary record of the big-eyed bat Chiroderma villosum (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with a revised lower molar terminology
- Conservation
- The Giant Tree Rat, Toromys grandis (Wagner, 1845): new record with range extension and comments on its morphology, biology and conservation
- Andersen’s leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros pomona) is still living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
- Long-term assessment of the success of a European badger reintroduction
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Ecology
- Large mammal richness in Llanganates National Park, Ecuador
- Microhabitat structure and food availability modelling a small mammal assemblage in restored riparian forest remnants
- Determinants of home range size and spatial overlap of Gracilinanus agilis (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in central-western Brazil
- Autumn food habits of the brown bear Ursus arctos in the Golestan National Park: a pilot study in Iran
- Frugivory and potential seed dispersal by the exotic-invasive marmoset Callithrix jacchus (Primates, Callitrichidae) in an urban Atlantic Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Trap type and positioning: how to trap Savi’s pine voles using the tunnel system
- Ethology
- Allosuckling in a captive group of wild cavies Cavia aperea
- Biogeography
- Biogeographic implications of small mammals from Northern Highlands in Tanzania with first data from the volcanic Mount Kitumbeine
- Phylogeography of a widespread sub-Saharan murid rodent Aethomys chrysophilus: the role of geographic barriers and paleoclimate in the Zambezian bioregion
- Taxonomy/phylogeny
- First record of Dermanura anderseni (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) for the Atlantic Forest
- Evolutionary biology
- A Quaternary record of the big-eyed bat Chiroderma villosum (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with a revised lower molar terminology
- Conservation
- The Giant Tree Rat, Toromys grandis (Wagner, 1845): new record with range extension and comments on its morphology, biology and conservation
- Andersen’s leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros pomona) is still living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
- Long-term assessment of the success of a European badger reintroduction
