| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | PILOSA | CYCLOPEDIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Cyclopes didactylus | |||
| Species Authority: | (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 | ||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2008 | ||||||
| Assessor/s | Chiarello, A., Miranda, F., Samudio, R. & Members of the IUCN SSC Edentate Specialist Group | ||||||
| Evaluator/s: | da Fonseca, G.A.B. (Edentate Red List Authority) & Berridge, R. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) | ||||||
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Justification: Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, its occurrence in a number of protected areas, its tolerance of a degree of habitat modification, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. |
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| Range Description: | This species ranges from México (Veracruz and Oaxaca) in the north (although absent from the Pacific coast of México), south into Colombia from where it ranges west of the Andes to southern Ecuador, and east of the Andes into Venezuela, Trinidad Island, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Acre state east to Alagoas state), and as far south as Bolivia (La Paz and Santa Cruz) (Gardner 2005). A disjunct population has been reported from the northern Atlantic Forest (Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Paraiba, and Rio Grande do Norte). The species has not been recorded from El Salvador and it is unclear if the species was ever present there, especially as it does not occur in the Pacific coastal region of Mexico. It has been recorded from sea level up to 1,500 m asl. |
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Native:
Belize; Bolivia; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela
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| Range Map: |
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| Population: | It has been recorded at a density of 0.77 animals per hectare in Panamá. |
| Population Trend: |
Unknown
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| Habitat and Ecology: | This nocturnal and arboreal species occurs in semi-deciduous and evergreen tropical moist lowland and gallery forest, mangrove forest, and cerrado (dry savanna habitat). It can be found in secondary forest habitat. Adults are solitary, and the females give birth to a single young up to twice a year (Reid 1997). |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | Although general deforestation is taking place over many parts of the range, it remains widespread in the Amazon Basin and there are no major threats to its survival. |
| Conservation Actions: | This species is present in a number of protected areas. The seemingly disjunct population in north-eastern Brazil may be taxonomically distinct and needs further study (Miranda pers. comm.). This population is especially threatened by the almost total destruction of suitable forest habitat for sugarcane production. |
| Citation: | Chiarello, A., Miranda, F., Samudio, R. & Members of the IUCN SSC Edentate Specialist Group 2008. Cyclopes didactylus. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 December 2008. |
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