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Ansorge’s cusimanse in Angola: 100 years apart, new records contribute to the species known range

  • David Elizalde Castells ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Sara R. F. F. Elizalde ORCID logo , Luis M. P. Ceríaco ORCID logo und Rosemary Joy Groom ORCID logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 20. Mai 2021
Mammalia
Aus der Zeitschrift Mammalia Band 85 Heft 5

Abstract

Ansorge’s cusimanse, Crossarchus ansorgei Thomas, 1910, has until recently been known in Angola only from a single specimen collected in 1908, the holotype. During a camera trap survey conducted in Quiçama National Park (Angola) in 2017, we recorded the presence of the species 115 km south-west of the type locality – 40 km from the edge of the current known distribution range, – extending it south of the Cuanza river and possibly following the woodlands along the Angolan Escarpment. We combine our records of Ansorge’s cusimanse with the available published and unpublished records from Angola and compare with other vertebrate taxa that follow a similar pattern, in which Central African species extend their southern distribution into Angola, through the more forested areas in northwestern Angola and further south along the Escarpment. Furthermore, we discuss the urgent need for more research on this species and the impact bushmeat harvesting may have on its conservation.

Keywords: Angola; Ansorge’s cusimanse; Crossarchus ansorgei ; distribution; range
Corresponding author: David Elizalde Castells, The Range Wide Conservation Program for Cheetah and African Wild Dog, Regents Park, London NW1-4RY, UK; and Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1-4RY, UK, E-mail:

Funding source: United Nations Development Program/Global Environmental Fund

Acknowledgements

The survey from where the records were obtained was commissioned by the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidade e Áreas de Conservação (INBAC), from the Angolan Ministry of Environment. The authors are grateful to Jonathan Kingdon and Adam Ferguson for the help in confirming the identification of the cusimanse’s pictures. We thank Christopher Hines and Nik Chalmers for sharing their sighting and bushmeat data.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission. Study design and fieldwork was performed by David Elizalde, Sara Elizalde and Rosemary Groom; data analysis was carried out by David Elizalde, Sara Elizalde and Luis Ceríaco; Manuscript writing and review was done by all authors.

  2. Research funding: This study was funded by the Global Environmental Fund (GEF) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

  4. Research ethics: All procedures involved in this study were in accordance with the relevant Angolan and international laws. The article does not contain studies involving animals performed by any of the authors. The study was conducted in partnership with the Angolan National Institute for Biodiversity and Conservation Areas.

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Received: 2020-06-26
Accepted: 2021-03-30
Published Online: 2021-05-20
Published in Print: 2021-09-27

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Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Conservation
  3. Ansorge’s cusimanse in Angola: 100 years apart, new records contribute to the species known range
  4. Abundance of the exploited red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina Rodentia: Dasyproctidae) on the island of Trinidad
  5. Biogeography
  6. The roles of possible geographic barriers and geological events on the phylogeographic structure of the Eastern broad toothed field mouse (Apodemus mystacinus)
  7. First record of Blanford’s Fox Vulpes cana (Blanford, 1877) from Iraq
  8. New records and southern range extension of the Annamite striped rabbit Nesolagus timminsi in Vietnam
  9. Ecology
  10. A pilot study of the use of dry dog food as an alternative attractant in mesocarnivore studies
  11. Seasonal diet composition of Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) in Kajinag National Park, Jammu and Kashmir, India
  12. Seasonal and daily activity patterns of mammals in the colony of great cormorants
  13. First North African record of a melanistic common genet (Genetta genetta Linnaeus, 1758)
  14. Albinism in Brazilian common opossums (Didelphis aurita)
  15. Evolutionary biology
  16. Brain size evolution in small mammals: test of the expensive tissue hypothesis
  17. Taxonomy/phylogeny
  18. DNA barcoding of bats (Chiroptera) from the Colombian northern region
  19. Morphology and genetics concur that Anoura carishina is a synonym of Anoura latidens (Chiroptera, Glossophaginae)
  20. Taxonomy of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina: the occurrence of the “mendocinus” lineage
https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2020-0091
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Angola; Ansorge’s cusimanse; Crossarchus ansorgei; distribution; range

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Conservation
  3. Ansorge’s cusimanse in Angola: 100 years apart, new records contribute to the species known range
  4. Abundance of the exploited red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina Rodentia: Dasyproctidae) on the island of Trinidad
  5. Biogeography
  6. The roles of possible geographic barriers and geological events on the phylogeographic structure of the Eastern broad toothed field mouse (Apodemus mystacinus)
  7. First record of Blanford’s Fox Vulpes cana (Blanford, 1877) from Iraq
  8. New records and southern range extension of the Annamite striped rabbit Nesolagus timminsi in Vietnam
  9. Ecology
  10. A pilot study of the use of dry dog food as an alternative attractant in mesocarnivore studies
  11. Seasonal diet composition of Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) in Kajinag National Park, Jammu and Kashmir, India
  12. Seasonal and daily activity patterns of mammals in the colony of great cormorants
  13. First North African record of a melanistic common genet (Genetta genetta Linnaeus, 1758)
  14. Albinism in Brazilian common opossums (Didelphis aurita)
  15. Evolutionary biology
  16. Brain size evolution in small mammals: test of the expensive tissue hypothesis
  17. Taxonomy/phylogeny
  18. DNA barcoding of bats (Chiroptera) from the Colombian northern region
  19. Morphology and genetics concur that Anoura carishina is a synonym of Anoura latidens (Chiroptera, Glossophaginae)
  20. Taxonomy of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina: the occurrence of the “mendocinus” lineage
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