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| author | Naranjo, Eduardo Jorge Medinilla, Eduardo Espinoza |
| author_facet | Naranjo, Eduardo Jorge Medinilla, Eduardo Espinoza |
| contents | (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) We present a checklist of the mammals found in Huitepec Ecological Reserve, located in the municipality of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México. Between 1991 and 1998 we found 40 mammal species of 15 families and 7 orders. The most specious mammalian orders in the study area were Rodentia (n=17 species), and Chiroptera (n=11 species). Two of the species (Sorex stizodon and Peromyscus zarhynchus) present in the Huitepec Reserve are endemic of México and Guatemala. These and other five species are enlisted in the Mexican Norm of Endangered Wildlife (NOM-ECOL-059-2000). Considering the small size of the Huitepec Reserve as well as its relatively high number of mammal species, it is possible to infer that this protected area constitutes an important sample of the mammalian diversity in the Chiapas highlands. However, the high growth rate of the local human population, the expansion of the city of San Cristóbal, and the conditions of poverty and abandonment suffered by the rural population in the region constitute serious threats to the persistence of the Huitepec Reserve and its biodiversity in the near future. |
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| publishDate | 2001 |
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| spellingShingle | Los mamíferos de la reserva ecológica Huitepec, Chiapas, México. Naranjo, Eduardo Jorge Medinilla, Eduardo Espinoza Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) We present a checklist of the mammals found in Huitepec Ecological Reserve, located in the municipality of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México. Between 1991 and 1998 we found 40 mammal species of 15 families and 7 orders. The most specious mammalian orders in the study area were Rodentia (n=17 species), and Chiroptera (n=11 species). Two of the species (Sorex stizodon and Peromyscus zarhynchus) present in the Huitepec Reserve are endemic of México and Guatemala. These and other five species are enlisted in the Mexican Norm of Endangered Wildlife (NOM-ECOL-059-2000). Considering the small size of the Huitepec Reserve as well as its relatively high number of mammal species, it is possible to infer that this protected area constitutes an important sample of the mammalian diversity in the Chiapas highlands. However, the high growth rate of the local human population, the expansion of the city of San Cristóbal, and the conditions of poverty and abandonment suffered by the rural population in the region constitute serious threats to the persistence of the Huitepec Reserve and its biodiversity in the near future. |
| title | Los mamíferos de la reserva ecológica Huitepec, Chiapas, México. |
| topic | Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13440535 |