Abstract

The giant anteater ( Myrmecophaga tridactyla ) is the largest living anteater, which due to several anthropic impacts, is threatened with extinction. So far, there was only one locality with a confirmed record of M. tridactyla in Northeast of Brazil. We present a new direct record of the species in Brazilian Northeast, registered in July 2017 by camera trap, in an arboreal caatinga area, municipality of Sento Sé, Bahia. This record is the second one of the species in the Caatinga Biome and confirms the occurrence of M. tridactyla in the state of Bahia. It constitutes the first direct record of M. tridactyla in more than 13 years of monitoring in the study area, suggesting that the species is locally rare.

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Title
New record of giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla (Pilosa, Myrmecophagidae) in Northeast Brazil
Author
de Matos Dias, Douglas  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Miranda, Flávia Regina; Flávio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
Pages
129-135
Section
Short Communication
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Apr 2019
Publisher
Pensoft Publishers
ISSN
18099939
e-ISSN
22363777
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/neotropical.14.e34842
ProQuest document ID
2754043835
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.