Tolypeutes tricinctus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gutierrez, Eliecer E. & Marinho-Filho, Jader, 2017, The mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga, ZooKeys 644, pp. 105-157 : 109

Tolypeutes tricinctus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution.

Tolypeutes tricinctus is endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga (contra Wetzel et al. 2007), and has been recorded in the Brazilian states of Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Sergipe, and Tocantins ( Sanborn 1930, Moojen 1943; Silva and Oren 1993, Santos et al. 1994, Oliveira 1995, Marinho-Filho et al. 1997, Zimbres et al. 2012, 2013, Feijó et al. 2015a). The species had been traditionally considered an endemic of the Caatinga biome, however records of the species well within the Cerrado biome and in native Cerrado habitat type have been reported ( Marinho-Filho et al. 1997; see also figure 2 in Feijó et al. 2015a).

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver. 3.1 assigned the category “Vulnerable” to Tolypeutes tricinctus (see Miranda et al. 2014). The species appears in the official list of threatened species of Brazil with the category “Endangered” ( ICMBIO-MMA 2016).