A new threat for the rarest neotropical carnivore: the vulnerable Colombian weasel, Neogale felipei
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Gustavo Adolfo Pisso-Florez
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Alexandra Cardona-Giraldo
Abstract
The Colombian weasel, Neogale felipei, previously included in the genus Mustela, is considered the rarest carnivore in the Neotropics and is known from only eight localities in Colombia and Ecuador. It is currently classified as Vulnerable, but little is known about the direct threats that the species faces. We present a new locality record for N. felipei in the Andes of southwestern Colombia based on a road-killed specimen. The record is relevant because it provides additional information about morphological variation and describe a new threat to its populations that even affects individuals within protected areas such as the Puracé National Park, where the specimen was found.
Funding source: The Rufford Foundation
Award Identifier / Grant number: 28471-2
Funding source: Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación
Award Identifier / Grant number: 120385270267/80740-200-2021
Funding source: Universidad de Caldas
Award Identifier / Grant number: 0126021
Acknowledgments
G. A. Pisso-Florez and H. M. Pizo thank the Puracé National Park and Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia. G. A. Pisso-Florez thanks The Rufford Foundation for support (grant 28471-2), and Oscar Meneses Cerón together with the monitoring group Origenes for providing information of the road-killed mountain coati. HERC thanks the Vicerrectoría de Investigaciones y Posgrados de la Universidad de Caldas, Project “Identificación de los vertebrados muertos en vías de transporte en el Área Metropolitana de Manizales, Caldas, Colombia”, project code: 0126021 and Andrés Julián Lozano (IAvH). Alexandra Cardona-Giraldo thanks the programme “Relación, distribución, taxonomía de especies de garrapatas asociadas a mamíferos silvestres en zonas endémicas de rickettsiosis en Colombia. Un acercamiento a la comprensión de la relación vectores patógenos-reservorios”, granted by the Ministerio De Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación–Minciencias (codes: 120385270267 and CTO 80740-200-2021). We are grateful to the anonymous reviewer(s) and journal editor(s) who made important suggestions that improved the manuscript.
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Author contributions: GAPF and HERC conceived, collected data, analyze information, and prepared figures. ACG gathered information, prepared maps and tables. HMP collected data. All authors wrote the manuscript. GAPF and HERC are equal contributors.
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Research funding: The Rufford Foundation (grant 28471-2); Vicerrectoría de Investigaciones y Posgrados de la Universidad de Caldas (project code 0126021); Ministerio De Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación–Minciencias (project codes 120385270267 and CTO 80740-200-2021).
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Research ethics: All procedures were in accordance with the national laws. The collection was supported by Decree 1076 de 2015, Chapter 8, Section, Article 2.2.2.8.1.2.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
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- Camera trapping arboreal mammals in Argentina’s Atlantic Forest
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- A note on bat faunal assessment in Karuna bat cave, Baglung, Nepal
- Long-distance dispersal of two species of shrews (Sorex caecutiens Laxmann, 1788 and Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766)
- Conservation
- A new threat for the rarest neotropical carnivore: the vulnerable Colombian weasel, Neogale felipei
- Evolutionary Biology
- Assessment of craniometric sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic variation in invasive Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus from urban and peri-urban areas of Gauteng Province, South Africa
- A geometric morphometric analysis of geographic variation in the Cape Short-eared gerbil, Desmodillus auricularis (Rodentia: Gerbillinae)
- Taxonomy/Phylogeny
- Cephalic shield morphology as species diagnostic trait and individual natural mark in three-banded armadillos (Tolypeutes; Cingulata: Chlamyphoridae)
- Annotations on the taxonomy of the opossums (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) of Honduras
- Clarifying the taxonomic status of Crocidura cantabra Cabrera, 1908 (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae: Crocidurinae)
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Obituary
- François Catzeflis (1953–2021)
- Ecology
- Hunting and water scarcity affect habitat occupancy by peccaries (Tayassu pecari and Pecari tajacu) in Calakmul, Mexico
- Camera trapping arboreal mammals in Argentina’s Atlantic Forest
- Activity patterns and burrowing ecology of the giant pouched rat (Cricetomys emini) in Tshuapa Province, D. R. Congo
- Is resource partitioning between two sympatric species of Gracilinanus (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) related to trophic and spatial niches?
- Gone before it’s known? Camera-trapping shows alarming levels of putative hybrids in the wildcat (Felis silvestris) population of the Gargano National Park (Southern Italy)
- A note on bat faunal assessment in Karuna bat cave, Baglung, Nepal
- Long-distance dispersal of two species of shrews (Sorex caecutiens Laxmann, 1788 and Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766)
- Conservation
- A new threat for the rarest neotropical carnivore: the vulnerable Colombian weasel, Neogale felipei
- Evolutionary Biology
- Assessment of craniometric sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic variation in invasive Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus from urban and peri-urban areas of Gauteng Province, South Africa
- A geometric morphometric analysis of geographic variation in the Cape Short-eared gerbil, Desmodillus auricularis (Rodentia: Gerbillinae)
- Taxonomy/Phylogeny
- Cephalic shield morphology as species diagnostic trait and individual natural mark in three-banded armadillos (Tolypeutes; Cingulata: Chlamyphoridae)
- Annotations on the taxonomy of the opossums (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) of Honduras
- Clarifying the taxonomic status of Crocidura cantabra Cabrera, 1908 (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae: Crocidurinae)
