Dienstag, 18 April 2023 09:24

ROWE-ROWE, D. T. (1991)

The Ungulates of Natal.

Broschüre, 36 Seiten. Natal Parks Board, Pietermaritzburg.

Inhalt:

Für 33 Huftierarten (einschließlich Elefant) werden Angaben zu rechtlichem Status, Verbreitung und Bestand, Ansprüche an den Lebensraum, Soziale Organisation, Populationsdynamik Gefährdungen sowie Bedeutung für den Menschen gemacht. Zu jeder Art hat es eine Verbreitungskarte.

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Diet and Activity of the Bear Cuscus, Ailurops ursinus, in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

J. Mammalogy 80 (3): 905-912. https://doi.org/10.2307/1383259. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1383259

Abstract:

We studied the daily time budget and feeding activity of the bear cuscus, Ailurops ursinus, in the Tangkoko-Duasudara Nature Reserve, North Sulawesei, Indonesia. Bear cuscuses spent 63.4% of their time resting, and feeding accounted for only 5.6% of their activities. Bear cuscuses fed on 31 species of plants, including 26 identified trees and lianas from 17 fasmilies and 5 unidentified mitletoes. Dietary preference was influenced by availability of young leaves, and bear cuscueses maximized the amount of young leaves in the diet.

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Vulpes corsac (Carnivora: Canidae).

Mammalian Species 832 (27 May 2009): 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1644/832.1

Abstract:

Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768) is a canid commonly called the corsac fox or steppe fox. It is distributed throughout nearly all of the central Asian republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan and its range extends into portions of Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Mongolia, and China. It is adapted to arid conditions and can forego food and water for extended periods of time. Cortex and medulla features of its fur allow it to endure cold, harsh winter conditions but it is not adapted for walking on snow. It typically inhabits grassland steppes, semideserts, and deserts and will frequent agricultural lands and plowed fields in some areas. It is an opportunistic forager and hunter that is considered a species of Least Concern from a conservation standpoint.

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Mittwoch, 22 Februar 2023 10:32

MEIJAARD, E. & CHUA, M. A. H. (2017)

Is the northern chevrotain, Tragulus williamsoni Kloss, 1916, a synonym or one of the least-documented mammal species in Asia?

Raffles Bull. Zoology 65: 506–514.

Abstract:

The northern chevrotain, Tragulus williamsoni Kloss, 1916, was described, and for nearly a century remained known, from only one specimen. This had been collected from Meh Lem in northern Thailand in 1916. Following a taxonomic revision of the genus Tragulus, its taxonomic status was regarded as uncertain. New information from a Tragulus specimen from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province, China, stored in the Kunming Institute of Zoology, corroborates the status of T. williamsoni as a distinct taxon based on skull measurements. The conservation implications of this finding include the urgent need to determine conclusively the taxonomic status of T. williamsoni, and its distribution and conservation status.

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Is the northern chevrotain, Tragulus williamsoni Kloss, 1916, a synonym or one of the least-documented mammal species in Asia?

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65: 506-514.

Abstract:

The northern chevrotain, Tragulus williamsoni Kloss, 1916, was described, and for nearly a century
remained known, from only one specimen. This had been collected from Meh Lem in northern Thailand in 1916.
Following a taxonomic revision of the genus Tragulus, its taxonomic status was regarded as uncertain. New
information from a Tragulus specimen from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province, China, stored in the Kunming
Institute of Zoology, corroborates the status of T. williamsoni as a distinct taxon based on skull measurements. The
conservation implications of this finding include the urgent need to determine conclusively the taxonomic status
of T. williamsoni, and its distribution and conservation status.

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Dienstag, 21 Februar 2023 17:55

LOW, C. H. S., WAI, C. K & LIM, K. K. P (2009)

The Identity of Mousedeer (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Tragulidae) observed at Lower Peirce Fotest, Singapore.

NATURE IN SINGAPORE 2009 2: 467–473.

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Conclusion:

The napu and the kanchil are usually distinguished from each other by the number of white stripes on their throat and
neck. However, in rare cases, this does not hold true at least for the kanchil. When coat colour and dark mid-ventral
stripe are taken into consideration, the mousedeer from Lower Peirce, thought to be a napu, Tragulus napu, should be a
kanchil, Tragulus kanchil fulviventer. Therefore, there is no recent record of wild napu on Singapore Island.

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Mittwoch, 25 Januar 2023 15:31

YATES, A. M. (2015)

Thylacinus (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from the Mio-Pliocene boundary and the diversity of Late Neogene thylacinids in Australia.

PeerJ. 2015; 3: e931. Published online 2015 May 12. doi: 10.7717/peerj.931

Abstract:

Thylacinus yorkellus is described as a new, moderately small-bodied species of thylacinid from the latest Miocene or, more likely, earliest Pliocene of South Australia. The new species can be diagnosed by the autapomorphic presence a strongly developed precingulid that terminates in a cuspidule on the anterobuccal face of the paraconid of the lower molars and a tiny basal anterior cuspidule on P2, P3 and the lower molars. It is found by cladistic analysis to be the sister species of the recently extinct Th. cynocephalus and distinct from the approximately coeval Th. megiriani from the Northern Territory. New dentary material is described and referred to Th. megiriani. These add character data and allow this species to be re-diagnosed based on autapomorphic character traits. Each of the three known late Miocene to early Pliocene Thylacinus species (Th. potens, Th. megiriani and Th. yorkellus) suggest that, instead of declining, there was a modest radiation of Thylacinus in the late Miocene.

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Kupferrote Springaffen (Plecturocebus cupreus)

Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos 65(2): 49-62.

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Zusammenfassung:

Wir berichten über Ergebnisse von Freilandstudien an Kupferroten Springaffen (Plecturocebus cupreus) an der Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco (EBQB), einer Forschungsstation im nordöstlichen peruanischen Amazonastiefland. Diese Springaffen können aufgrund ihrer Nahrungszusammensetzung als frugivor-faunivor charakterisiert werden. Sie leben in Familiengruppen von 2-6 Mitgliedern. Die Beziehungen zwischen dem Elternpaar sind gekennzeichnet durch einen größeren Beitrag des Weibchens zur sozialen Fellpflege und zur Aufrechterhaltung der räumlichen Nähe. Männchen sind hingegen die hauptsächlichen oder einzigen Träger der Jungtiere. Nach den bisherigen genetischen Befunden sind die Kupferroten Springaffen monogam, d. h. Jungtiere stammen von Männchen eines Paares ab, Vaterschaften außerhalb des Paares wurden nicht gefunden. Außerdem übernehmen sie bei Begegnungen mit potentiellen Raubfeinden und mit Nachbargruppen aktiver als die Weibchen. Springaffen zeigen eine ungewöhnliche Assoziation mit Mistkäfern. Wir enden mit einem Ausblick auf offene Fragestellungen.

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Fukomys mechowii (Rodentia: Bathyergidae).

Mammalian Species 53 (1011): 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1093/mspecies/seab014

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Fukomys mechowii (Peters, 1881), the giant mole-rat or Mechow’s mole-rat, is a cooperatively breeding, tooth-digging, subterranean rodent. It is the largest representative of the genus Fukomys, which is part of the African mole-rat family Bathyergidae. It is found in mesic shrubland, savannah habitats, and agricultural lands in central Africa, its range extending through Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia. Fukomys mechowii is hunted for its meat in rural areas but its population is considered to be stable. It is rarely housed in captivity and is listed as “Least Concern” (LC) on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species.

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Montag, 20 Juni 2022 09:55

GLOVER, R. (1956)

Notes on the Sika Deer.

Journal of Mammalogy 37 (1): 99-105.

Extract:

When two men undertake so large a task as compiling a checklist of palae-arctic and Indian mammals, they cannot fairly be expected to escape some oversights. Such seem to have occurred in J. R. Ellerman's and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott's treatment of the sika deer.

First, they list Sika dugenneanus (sic) as a synonym, with “no locality,” for the South China Sika, Cervus nippon kopschi Swinhoe, 1873. Alike in their spelling of “dugenneanus” in making it a synonym for kopschi, and in declaring it had no locality, they seem to follow the statement of Allen (1940), but on all three points Allen would appear to mislead them.

The name dugennianus was coined by the French missionary, Father P. M. Heude, who gathered a large collection of mammals at the Sikawei Museum in Shanghai, and created infinite confusion among Chinese fauna by proliferating synonyms with an almost...

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