Rediscovery of Heteromys nelsoni in its type locality after over a century
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Consuelo Lorenzo
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Jorge E. Bolaños-Citalán
Abstract
We rediscovered a population of Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys nelsoni; Merriam, 1902) in the type locality of Pinabeto in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 121 years after it was last collected. We describe five topotype specimens according to their morphology and external measurements, and we confirm its identity at the species level in the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) of GenBank. As the population of H. nelsoni in Pinabeto is isolated, it is likely to be susceptible to extinction. There is a need to carry out additional scientific studies of this microendemic species in order to obtain more information regarding its biology, ecology and evolutionary history, and to be able to influence environmental policy to protect and conserve this species, as well as the region’s cloud forests.
Acknowledgments
We thank the anonymous reviewers and the associate editor of this journal for their comments on the manuscript, as well as E.C. Sántiz, C. Sántiz and J.A. Pérez for their invaluable field assistance. Thanks to the residents of Canton Los Volveres for allowing access to the study area. We also thank J.C. Llanes-Monsreal for preparing Figure 1, and E.L. Jensen and A. Greenberg for the editorial assistance with the English manuscript. This work was supported by the Sectorial Fund for Environmental Research (SEMARNAT-CONACyT; project 263089).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Taxonomy/phylogeny
- Mammalian species and the twofold nature of taxonomy: a comment on Taylor et al. 2019
- Rediscovery of Heteromys nelsoni in its type locality after over a century
- Ecology
- Phylogeography and niche modelling: reciprocal enlightenment
- Evaluation of bait use for mammal richness
- Diversity and size-structured persistence of tropical carnivores in a small, isolated protected area
- Comparison of two faecal analysis techniques to assess Formosan pangolin Manis pentadactyla pentadactyla diet
- Local habitat preferences of a semi-aquatic mammal, the Pyrenean desman Galemys pyrenaicus
- An initial record of a long-distance dispersal route of a male sika deer in central Japan
- Preliminary data on density and habitat of carnivores in two protected areas of Burkina Faso (West Africa)
- Museology/history of science
- The hornless rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis Lesson, 1836) discovered by Lamare-Picquot in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh in 1828, with notes on the history of his Asian collections
- Evolutionary biology
- Mesial hyperdontia in Sigmodontinae (Rodentia: Cricetidae), with comments on the evolution of the anteroconid in Myomorpha
- Biogeography
- Time is running out! Rapid range expansion of the invasive northern raccoon in central Italy
- Southern extension of the geographic range of black-and-gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya)
- Ethology
- Movement and use of environmental structures, climbing supports and shelters by Akodon montensis (Sigmodontinae, Rodentia) in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Taxonomy/phylogeny
- Mammalian species and the twofold nature of taxonomy: a comment on Taylor et al. 2019
- Rediscovery of Heteromys nelsoni in its type locality after over a century
- Ecology
- Phylogeography and niche modelling: reciprocal enlightenment
- Evaluation of bait use for mammal richness
- Diversity and size-structured persistence of tropical carnivores in a small, isolated protected area
- Comparison of two faecal analysis techniques to assess Formosan pangolin Manis pentadactyla pentadactyla diet
- Local habitat preferences of a semi-aquatic mammal, the Pyrenean desman Galemys pyrenaicus
- An initial record of a long-distance dispersal route of a male sika deer in central Japan
- Preliminary data on density and habitat of carnivores in two protected areas of Burkina Faso (West Africa)
- Museology/history of science
- The hornless rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis Lesson, 1836) discovered by Lamare-Picquot in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh in 1828, with notes on the history of his Asian collections
- Evolutionary biology
- Mesial hyperdontia in Sigmodontinae (Rodentia: Cricetidae), with comments on the evolution of the anteroconid in Myomorpha
- Biogeography
- Time is running out! Rapid range expansion of the invasive northern raccoon in central Italy
- Southern extension of the geographic range of black-and-gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya)
- Ethology
- Movement and use of environmental structures, climbing supports and shelters by Akodon montensis (Sigmodontinae, Rodentia) in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil
