Kerodon acrobata Moojen, Locks & Langguth, 1997

Gutierrez, Eliecer E. & Marinho-Filho, Jader, 2017, The mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga, ZooKeys 644, pp. 105-157 : 116

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.644.10827

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scientific name

Kerodon acrobata Moojen, Locks & Langguth, 1997
status

 

Kerodon acrobata Moojen, Locks & Langguth, 1997 View in CoL

Distribution.

Kerodon acrobata is endemic to the Cerrado, and has been recorded only in the Brazilian states of Goiás and Tocantins ( Moojen et al. 1997, Bezerra et al. 2010, Zappes et al. 2014).

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver 3.1 assigned the category "Data Deficient" to Kerodon acrobata (see Roach 2016). The species appears in the official list of threatened species of Brazil with the category “Vulnerable” ( ICMBIO-MMA 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Caviidae

Genus

Kerodon