Neotropical felid specimens at the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi: species, distribution, and morphometric data

Alexandra Maria Ramos Bezerra,Samanta Uchôa Bordallo

doi:10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.33

Alexandra Maria Ramos Bezerra, Samanta Uchôa Bordallo

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https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.33

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Abstract

Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG), situated at Brazilian state of Pará, houses the third largest South-American mammal scientific collection, being a primary source of information for the study of Amazonian and Neotropical mammalians. The collection holds 245 felid specimens, comprising 210 skulls, 53 skins, 10 skeletons, and two anatomical pieces, representing 90% of wild Brazilian cat species, mainly from localities of Northern Brazil. We presented a list of this material, indexed by the genera and species. We also provided craniodental measurements of all the specimens with skull, and comment on the conservation status of the species and other remarkable data, including the first record of Leopardus tigrinus in the Brazilian state of Rondônia.

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The mammal collection in the Brazilian museum Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG) is the third largest collection of this kind in South America (Bezerra, 2013), and is one of the main source of information for mammalian Amazonian diversity
Felidae in the MPEG is represented by 245 specimens distributed in four genera and nine species, all with localities in Brazil (Fig. 1, Table 1)
This catalogue represents the status of the MPEG mammal collection in early 2018

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The mammal collection in the Brazilian museum Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG) is the third largest collection of this kind in South America (Bezerra, 2013), and is one of the main source of information for mammalian Amazonian diversity. This collection includes about 45,000 specimens, among stuffed and opened skins, skulls, postcranium skeletons, and whole body fluid preserved, and 45 nomenclatural types Almost all species of felids are included in some threatened category from national and international lists, and several species groups need taxonomic revision (Kitchener et al, 2017)

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