Large- and medium-bodied terrestrial mammals of the Upper Berbice region of Guyana
Author
Pierre, Meshach A.
Author
Ignacio, Leroy
Author
Paemelaere, Evi A. D.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/16.5.1229
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1809-127X
Herpailurus yagouaroundi
(É. Geoffroy Saint-
Hilaire, 1803)
Figure 5C
New record.
GUYANA
•
East Berbice-Corentyne
Re- gion (6);
04°07.01′N
,
058°08.98′W
;
12 Oct. 2014
;
cam- era trap
photo
.
Figure 4.
Mammal species recorded using camera traps: (
A
)
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
, (
B
)
Priodontes maximus
, (
C
)
Dasypus
sp.
, (
D
)
Cuniculus paca
, (
E
)
Dasyprocta leporina
, and (
F
)
Myoprocta acouchy
.
Identification.
Identified by its long, stunted body. Smaller than
Puma
(
Puma concolor
) but larger than other small cats found in the same area. Only the dark morph was observed (
Emmons and Feer 1997
).