Thylamys (Xerodelphis) karimii (Petter, 1968)

Gutierrez, Eliecer E. & Marinho-Filho, Jader, 2017, The mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga, ZooKeys 644, pp. 105-157 : 108

Thylamys (Xerodelphis) karimii (Petter, 1968)

Distribution.

Thylamys karimii is endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga, and has been recorded in the Brazilian states of Bahia, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rondônia, Sergipe, and Tocantins, and in the Distrito Federal ( Carmignotto and Monfort 2006, Carvalho et al. 2009, Bruna et al. 2010, Carmignotto and Aires 2011, Bonvicino et al. 2012, Bezerra et al. 2014). The species has not been reported for Bolivia, but its presence on the Serranía de Huanchaca in the Santa Cruz department of that country might be expected ( Giarla et al. 2010).

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver. 3.1 assigned the category “Vulnerable” to Thylamys karimii (see Carmignotto et al. 2016b). The species was not included in the official list of threatened species of Brazil ( ICMBIO-MMA 2016).