List of Brazilian Mammals

Brazil's large size and wide variety of ecosystems and habitats make it one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet. According to the Living National Treasures website, Brazil has 175 species of endemic mammals. These include primates, rodents, bats, opossums, armadillos, sloths, foxes and bororos.
  1. Primates: Marmosets and Tamarins

    • Brazil has 18 species of marmosets: Rio Acari, buffy-tufted, gold-and-white, Emilia's, buffy-headed, white-headed, Santarem, Roosmalen's dwarf, Heshkovitz's, common, Wied's, white, manicore, Marca's, Maues, black-headed, black-tufted and Satere. The country also has nine species of tamarins: superagui lion, golden-headed, black lion, golden lion, pied, Martin's, white-mantled, black and red-capped.

    Primates: Capuchins, Titis, Monkeys and Sakis

    • Brazil has three native species of capuchins (Kaapori, black and golden-bellied) and two species of squirrel monkeys (bar-eared and black). The country has 16 species of titis: Baptista lake, Barbara Brown's, Prince Bernhard's, chestnut-bellied, ashy black, Coimbra Filho's, Hershkovitz's, Hoffmann's, coastal black-handed, red-bellied, black-fronted, Atlantic, Rio Purus, red-headed, collared, and Stephen Wash's. Four species of Sakis make their home in Brazil (white-nosed, black-bearded, Uta Hick's bearded, and white-footed), as well as two species of howler monkeys (red-handed and Amazon black), the white-checked spider monkey and the southern and northern muriqui.

    Rats

    • Brazil is home to more than 40 species of rats. They include painted tree, brush-tailed (Rio Negro and plain), armored tree (dark and giant), Atlantic tree (golden, orange-brown, drab, Kerr's, pallid, Lund's, Mantiqueira, long-furred, black-spined, rusty-sided, giant and short-furred), spring rat (owl's, Bishop's fossorial, broad-headed), spine tree rat (tuft-tailed, tufted-tailed, para), spiny rat (stiff-pine, Goeldi's, Robertos), punare (common, highlands), Atlantic spiny rat (white-spined, soft-spined, Elias', Gracile, Ihering's, dark-caped, Moojen's, mouse-tailed, spiked, hairy, Yonenaga's) and the bristle-spined rat.

    Other Rodents

    • Other Brazilian rodent species include akodont (cursorial, Lindbergh's, Caparao, Sao Paulo, Cerro do Mar, Lagoa Santa, white-nosed, gray-bellied, red-bellied, soricine, candango, cerrado, hairy-eared), caatinga lancha, montane (pallid, delomys), cleft-headed juliomys, colilargo (transitional, Brazilian, straw-colored), minute neacomys, vespucci's rodent, Atlantic forest oecomys (Cleber's, Brazilian), oryzomys (Emmon's, buffy-sided, Atlantic forest, Marcaju, Marinho's, Lindbergh's, Seuanez's), hocicudo (Amazonian, angular, Mt. Caparao, Atlantic forest, hispid), rusty phaenomys, rufescent rhagomys, rhipodymus (Eastern Amazon, long-tailed, Atlantic forest), red-nosed wiedomys, porcupine (black dwarf, Bahia dwarf, Roosmalen's dwarf, orange-spined hairy dwarf), guinea pig (shiny, Moleques do Sul), cavy (Brazilian yellow-toothed, climbing, rock), black-rumped agouti and tuco-tuco (Brazilian, Flamarion's, Lami).

    Other Mammals

    • Brazil is home to 12 species of opossums: agricola's gracile, Brazilian gracile, gray slender, Brazilian slender, northern three-striped, Ihering's three-striped, Margo short-tailed, chestnut-striped, southern three-striped, red three-striped, Karimi's fat-tailed and dwarf fat-tailed. Brazil is also home to the Brazilian three-banded armadillo, the maned sloth, and five species of bats (Bokerman's nectar, Dekeyser's nectar, Behn's, Recife broad-nosed and blackish-red). The hoary fox and the Sao Paulo bororo also make their home in Brazil.

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