AnimaliaRodentiaCaviidaeGutiérrezEliécer E.Marinho-FilhoJaderThe mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the CaatingaZookeys1012017201764410515710.3897/zookeys.644.10827 Kerodon rupestris (Wied-Neuwied, 1820)Distribution.

Kerodon rupestris is endemic to the Caatinga, and has been recorded in the Brazilian states of Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Paraiba, and Pernambuco (Moojen et al. 1997, Lessa et al. 2005, Dunnum 2015 and references therein). Indications of the species presence in the Cerrado (e.g., Marinho-Filho et al. 2002, Carmignotto et al. 2012) do not seem to be supported by voucher specimens.

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver 3.1 assigned the category “Least Concern” to Kerodon rupestris (see Catzeflis et al. 2016b). The species appears in the official list of threatened species of Brazil with the category “Vulnerable” (ICMBIO-MMA 2016).

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