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How Recorded (C - captured Species Common Name Scientific Name No. Ind or O - observed) Common Opossum Didelphis marsupialis 2 CT Virginia Opossum Didelphis viginiana 2 MT Grayish Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin canescens 4 MT Water Opossum Chironectes minimus 2+ VO Gray Four-eyed Opossum Pilander opossum 1 VO Mexican Mouse Opossum Marmosa mexicana 1 MT Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous centralis 1 AC Nine-banded Armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus ? CT Greater White-lined Bat Saccopteryx bilineata 1 MN Greater Fishing Bat Noctilio leporinus 2 MN Seba’s Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata 20+ MN Sowell's Short-tailed Bat Carollia sowelleii 1 MN Silky Short-tailed Bat Carollia brevicauda 4 MN Little Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira lilium 10+ MN Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus lituratus 3 MN Pygmy Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus phaeotis 2 MN Toltec Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus toltecus 1 MN Thomas' Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus watsoni 2 MN Hairy Big-eared Bat Chiroderma villosum 1 MN Great Stripe-faced Bat Vampyrodes caraccioli 1 MN Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa thyone 3 MN Common Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga soricina 1 MN Underwood's Long-tongued Bat Hylonycteris underwoodi 1 MN Common Tent-making Bat Uroderma bilobatum 2 MN Elegant Myotis Myotis elegans 2 MN Maya Small-eared Shrew Cryptotis mayensis 1 MT Yucatan Squirrel Sciurus yucatenensis 1 VO Variegated Squirrel Sciurus variegatoies 1 AC Deppe's Squirrel Sciurus deppei 5+ VO, CT Forest Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys desmarestianus 1 MT Vesper Rat Nyctomys sumichrasti 2 VO Slender Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys gracilis 1 MT Northern Pygmy Rice Rat Oligoryzomys fulvescens 1 MT Alston's Singing Mouse Scotinomys teguina 1 MT Alfaro's Rice Rat Handleyomys alfaroi 1 MT Hispid Cotton Rat Sigmodon hipidus 5 MT Central American Agouti Dasyprocta punctata 3 CT Paca Cuniculus paca 3 CT Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus ? VO, CT White-nosed Coati Nasua narica ? VO Tayra Eira barbara 2 VO, CT Neotropical River Otter Lontra longicaudus 1 VO Striped Hog-nosed Skunk Conepatus semistriatus 1 VO, CT Margay Leoparus weidii 1 VO, CT Jaguar Panthera onca 2 VO, CT Jaguarundi Puma yagouaroundi 1 VO Collared Peccary Pecari tajacu ? Evidence White- Lipped Peccary Tayassu pecari ? Evidence Red Brocket Deer Mazama americana 2 VO, CT White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus 1 VO, CT Codes : AC – Accidental Capture; CT – Camera Traps; MN – MistNets; MT – Mammal Trap; VO – Visual observation. .

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