Abstract

RUIZ-VELASQUEZ, Elder; ANDRES-REYES, Julia Venus  and  SANTOS-MORENO, Antonio. Noteworthy records of three mammalian species from Oaxaca, Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodiv. [online]. 2014, vol.85, n.1, pp.325-327. ISSN 2007-8706.  https://doi.org/10.7550/rmb.33961.

This study documents the following: the first case of vertebrate predation by the fruit-eating bat Artibeus jamaicensis, the most distal point of distribution on the slope of the Gulf of Mexico in Oaxaca and highest altitude recorded in Mexico for the neotropical river otter Lontra longicaudis; the second and third localities for the state and the southernmost limit of distribution for the ground squirrel Otospermophilus variegatus.

Keywords : Artibeus jamaicensis; Lontra longicaudis; Otospermophilus variegatus.