Table 4 Animal species recorded in forest fragments sampled by the walke-in-the-woods in the FLONA of Araripe, Ceará, Brazil
From: Fauna used by rural communities surrounding the protected area of Chapada do Araripe, Brazil
Family/ Specie/ Local name | Vegetation types / Number of records | Records Type | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rainforest | Forested Savannah | Transition Rainforest/Savannah | |||
BIRDS | |||||
Falconidae | |||||
Caracara plancus (Miller, 1777) southern carcara/“carcará” | … | … | 1 | footprints | 1 |
Cracidae | |||||
Penelope superciliaris (Temminck, 1815) Rusty-margined guan/“jacu” | … | 3 | 5 | footprints | 8 |
Strigidae | |||||
Megascops choliba (Vieillot, 1817) Owl/ “coruja” | … | 1 | … | footprints | 1 |
MAMMALIA | |||||
Canidae | |||||
Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus, 1766) Fox/“raposa” | … | 2 | … | footprints | 2 |
Nasua Nasua (Linnaeus, 1766) South American coati/“guará” | … | 1 | … | footprints | 1 |
Mustelidae | |||||
Conepatus semistriatus (Boddaert, 1785) Striped hog-nosed skunk/“gambá” | … | 1 | … | footprints | 1 |
Felidae | |||||
Leopardus tigrinus (Shreber, 1775 Oncilla/“gato do mato” | … | … | 1 | footprints | 1 |
Cervidae | |||||
Mazama gouazoubira (G. Fischer, 1814) Common deer/“veado comum” | … | 6 | 17 | footprints | 23 |
Dasyproctidae | |||||
Dasyprocta prymnolopha (Wagler, 1831) Black-rumped agouti/“cutia” | 1 | 9 | 9 | footprints | 19 |
Myrmecophagidae | |||||
Tamandua tetradactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) Collared anteater/“tamanduá” | 3 | … | … | carcasses | 3 |
REPTILIA | |||||
Teiidae | |||||
Salvator merianae (Duméril & Bibron,1839) Tegu/“teiú” | 1 | 2 | 7 | footprints | 10 |
TOTAL | 5 | 27 | 40 | … | 72 |