Mamíferos del departamento del Tolima: distribución y estado de conservación

Abstract

The mastozoologica study of the department of Tolima has increased in recent years, however, this information has not been compiled, nor updated, so as to identify distribution and taxonomic errors in order to identify research and conservation priorities. In order to synthesize the information on mammals from this Department, here a compilation of information from voucher specimens from Coleccion Zoologica de la Universidad del Tolima (CZUT-M), Museo Javeriano de Historia Natural Lorenzo Uribe (MPUJ), national collections as well as records from international museum databases and the scientific literature were investigated. As a number which is equivalent to 24.32% of the mammal species of Colombia; of these species, six are endemic to the country and seven are in any category of threat. This diversity is grouped into 30 families, 88 genera and 12 order, of these Chiroptera (71 spp.) and Rodentia (18 spp.) are the best represented. The zone of life that presented the greatest richness of species was the Tropical Dry Forest with 56, however, these areas have presented a greater investigative effort in relation to others, such as those established above 2000m.a.s.l. Our work reveals the need of new efforts to fill out the mammalian information gaps, as well as management and conservation plans for species and areas.