| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | DIDELPHIMORPHIA | DIDELPHIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Caluromys lanatus | |||||||||
| Species Authority: | (Olfers, 1818) | |||||||||
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| Taxonomic Notes: | Ojeda and Monjeau (1995) argued that Caluromys lanatus dates from Illiger (1815), not from Olfers (1818). However, as pointed out by Hershkovitz (1959), Illiger’s name (Didelphys lanata) is a nomen nudum because it simply appeared on a list and lacked a description or indication (Pinto and Gardner 2004). | |||||||||
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 | |||
| Year Published: | 2008 | |||
| Assessor/s: | Costa, L., Astua de Moraes, D., Brito, D., Soriano, P., Lew, D. & Delgado, C | |||
| Reviewer/s: | Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Schipper, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) | |||
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Justification: This species is listed as Least Concern in because of its wide distribution, presumed large population, occurrence in a number of protected areas and because it is unlikely to be declining at nearly the rate required to qualify for listing in a threatened category. Some populations of this species are threatened by loss of forest habitat as it is arboreal and confined to forest. |
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| Range Description: | This species is found in northern and central Colombia, northwestern and southern Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, eastern Bolivia, eastern and southern Paraguay, northern Argentina (Misiones), and western and southern Brazil. This species is replaced by Caluromys derbianus to the west of the Andes (Eisenberg, 1989). This species is found up to an altitude of 2,000 m (Soriano et al., 1999) or 2,500 m (Bangs, 1898). This species is sympatic with C. philander (Patton and Costa, 2003) |
| Countries: |
Native:
Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; Guyana; Paraguay; Peru; Venezuela
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| Population: | Locally common to rare; formerly hunted for its fur, which in no longer demand (Emmons and Feer, 1997). |
| Population Trend: |
Decreasing
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| Habitat and Ecology: | Nocturnal; arboreal; solitary. This species is typical of rainforest and is at the extreme portion of its range in southern South America. Feeds on fruit, probably a few invertebrates, and in the dry season drinks flower nectar. Found in tropical multistratal mature and secondary evergreen rainforest, disturbed forest, gallery forest. A specimen from Paraguay was obtained on a branch 10 m above the ground, and all indications are that this species is highly arboreal (Eisenberg, 1989; Emmons and Feer, 1997; Handley, 1976) and occurs to at least 1,000 m elevation (Emmons and Feer, 1997). |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | There are no major threats. Locally, habitat loss may be a threat to this species. It was formerly hunted for its fur (Emmons and Feer, 1997). Some populations are threatened by deforestation. |
| Conservation Actions: | The species occurs in many protected areas. |
| Citation: | Costa, L., Astua de Moraes, D., Brito, D., Soriano, P., Lew, D. & Delgado, C 2008. Caluromys lanatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 May 2012. |
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