List of mammals of Brazil

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The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:

Template:IUCN status Extinct No reasonable doubt that the last individual has died.
Template:IUCN status Extinct in the wild Known only to survive in captivity or as a naturalized populations well outside its previous range.
Template:IUCN status Critically endangered The species is in imminent risk of extinction in the wild.
Template:IUCN status Endangered The species is facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
Template:IUCN status Vulnerable The species is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
Template:IUCN status Near threatened The species does not meet any of the criteria that would categorise it as risking extinction but it is likely to do so in the future.
Template:IUCN status Least concern There are no current identifiable risks to the species.
Template:IUCN status Data deficient There is inadequate information to make an assessment of the risks to this species.

Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the following instead of least concern categories:

LR/lc Lower risk/least concern Species for which there are no identifiable risks.

Infraclass: Metatheria

Order: Didelphimorphia

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Bare-tailed woolly opossum
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White-eared opossum
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Gray four-eyed opossum
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Tate's woolly mouse opossum
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Gray slender opossum

Infraclass: Eutheria

Order: Pilosa

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Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
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Brown-throated sloth
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Silky anteater
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Giant anteater

Order: Cingulata

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Six-banded armadillo
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Southern three-banded armadillo

Order: Chiroptera

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Hoary bat

Order: Primates

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Goeldi's marmoset
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White-headed marmoset
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Golden lion tamarin
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Tufted capuchin
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Bald uakari
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Brown woolly monkey
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Black howler

Order: Carnivora

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Maned wolf
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Short-eared dog
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Bush dog
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Crab-eating fox

Canidae - dogs, foxes, wolves

Felidae - cats

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Jaguar
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Jaguarundi
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Margay

Mustelidae - otters, weasels and allies

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Eira barbara

Mephitidae - skunks

Otariidae - eared seals

Phocidae - earless seals

Procyonidae - raccoons, coatis, olingos and allies

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Crab-eating raccoon

Cetacea

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Southern right whale breaching
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Humpback whales in Abrolhos Islands
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Eden's whale off Ilhabela, São Paulo
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Spinner dolphins around Fernando de Noronha

Balaenidae - right whales

Balaenopteridae - rorquals

Delphinidae - dolphins

Phocoenidae - porpoises

Physeteridae

Iniidae - South American river dolphins

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Amazon river dolphin

Pontoporiidae - La Plata dolphin

Ziphiidae - beaked whales

Sirenia

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West Indian manatees in Peixe-boi Project, Paraíba

Trichechidae - manatees

Perissodactyla

Tapiridae - tapirs

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Brazilian tapir

Artiodactyla

Suidae - pigs

Tayassuidae - peccaries

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Collared peccary

Cervidae - deer

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Marsh deer

Rodentia

Sciuridae - squirrels

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Brazilian squirrel

Myocastoridae

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Nutria

Muridae - Old World rats and allies

Cricetidae - New World rats and allies

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Drymoreomys albimaculatus

Erethizontidae - New World porcupines

Dinomyidae

Caviidae - guinea pigs and cavies

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Brazilian guinea pig
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Rock cavy
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Capybara

Dasyproctidae - agoutis and acouchis

Cuniculidae

Ctenomyidae - tuco-tucos

Echimyidae - spiny rats and allies

Lagomorpha

Leporidae - rabbits and hares

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European hare

See also

References

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  • Costa, L.P. et al. 2005. Mammal Conservation in Brazil. Conservation Biology 19 (3), pp. 672–679.
  • Moratelli, R., Dias, D. 2015. A new species of nectar-feeding bat, genus Lonchophylla, from the Caatinga of Brazil (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). ZooKeys 514, pp. 73–91.
  • Nogueira, M.R. et al. 2014. Checklist of Brazilian bats, with comments on original records. Check List 10 (4), pp. 808–821.
  • Rocha, P.A. et al. 2015. First record of Salvin's big-eyed bat Chiroderma salvini Dobson, 1878 for Brazil. Mammalia (in press).
  • natureserve.org

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