Title
First record of Alston’s Woolly Mouse Opossum (Micoureus alstoni) from the canal area of Central Panama
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Volume Number
75
Source Publication
Mammalia
Abstract
Knowledge of the range and distribution of species is crucial to our understanding of ecological and evolutionary process- es. Unfortunately, obtaining such knowledge for mammals is difficult because it requires extensive time and effort. Indeed, it is probable that a complete species list does not exist for any site in the neotropics, even for the exhaustively studied Barro Colorado Nature Monument (BCNM) in Central Pan- ama (Voss and Emmons 1996). Here, we report the first rec- ord of Alston’s Woolly Mouse Opossum (Micoureus alstoni) from this heavily studied region.
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