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ISSN 1413-4411 (print version) ISSN 1852-9208 (electronic version) EdentataThe Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group • 2010 • Number 11(1) Editors: Mariella Superina, Flávia Miranda, Agustín M. Abba and Roberto Aguilar ASASG Chair: Mariella Superina ASASG Deputy Chair: Flávia Miranda Edentata The Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group ISSN 1413-4411 (print version) ISSN 1852-9208 (electronic version) Editors: Mariella Superina, IMBECU, CCT CONICET Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina. Flávia Miranda, Projeto Tamanduá and Wildlife Conservation Society, São Paulo, Brazil. Agustín M. Abba, División Zoología Vertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina. Roberto Aguilar, Cape Wildlife Center – Humane Society of the US, Barnstable, MA. IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group Chair Mariella Superina IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group Deputy Chair Flávia Miranda Layout Kim Meek, Washington, DC, e-mail: <[email protected]>. The editors wish to thank the following reviewers for their collaboration: Teresa Cristina Da Silveira Anacleto, Paula Chappell, Adriano Chiarello, Arnaud Desbiez, María Cecilia Ezquiaga, Héctor Ferrari, Alexine Keuroghlian, Colleen McDonough, Ísis Meri Medri, Nadia de Moraes-Barros, Tinka Plese, Teresa Tarifa, and Bryson Voirin. Front Cover Photo Giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla). Photo: Arnaud Desbiez, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. Please direct all submissions and other editorial correspondence to Mariella Superina, IMBECU - CCT CONICET Mendoza, Casilla de Correos 855, Mendoza (5500), Argentina. Tel. +54-261-5244160, Fax +54-261-5244001, e-mail: <[email protected]>. IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group logo courtesy of Stephen D. Nash, 2009. This issue of Edentata was kindly supported by the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, #500, Arlington, VA 22202 USA. TABLE OF CONTENTS iii Letter from the Editor iv IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group Members 2009–2012 1 Albinismo Total em Preguiças-de-Garganta-Marrom Bradypus variegatus (Schinz, 1825) no Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil Gileno Antonio Araújo Xavier, Maria Adélia Borstelmann de Oliveira, Adriana Alves Quirino, Rinaldo Aparecido Mota 4 Density and Habitat Use by Giant Anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) and Southern Tamanduas (Tamandua tetradactyla) in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil Arnaud Léonard Jean Desbiez, Ísis Meri Medri 11 New Data on Armadillos (Xenarthra: Dasypodidae) for Central Patagonia, Argentina Agustín M. Abba, Marcela J. Nabte, Daniel E. Udrizar Sauthier 18 Marcação Ungueal em Preguiças-de-Garganta-Marrom Bradypus variegatus (Schinz, 1825) de Vida Livre na Estação Ecológica de Caetés, Paulista-PE, Brasil Gileno Antonio Araújo Xavier, Rinaldo Aparecido Mota, Maria Adélia Borstelmann de Oliveira 22 Contribuição ao Conhecimento da Distribuição Geográfica do Tatu-de-Rabo-Mole-Grande Cabassous tatouay no Brasil: Revisão, Status e Comentários sobre a Espécie Flávio Kulaif Ubaid, Leonardo Siqueira Mendonça, Fábio Maffei 29 Cuevas de Armadillos (Cingulata: Dasypodidae) en la Amazonía Central: Son Útiles para Identificar Especies? Maria Clara Arteaga, Eduardo Martins Venticinque 34 Notas sobre el Comportamiento de Cortejo y Apareamiento de Myrmecophaga tridactyla Bajo Condiciones Ex Situ Jorge Anthony Astwood Romero, Patrícia Carolina Casas Martínez, Sol Ángela Ojeda Holguín, Ricardo Murillo Pacheco 44 Caracterización Nutricional de la Dieta de Tamandua mexicana en el Zoológico “Miguel Álvarez del Toro” (ZooMAT) Chiapas, México Víctor Hugo Morales-Sandoval 49 Dados Reprodutivos da População Cativa de Tamanduá-Bandeira (Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758) da Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo Maristela Leiva, Mara Cristina Marques 53 Reevaluation of the Geographical Distribution of Bradypus tridactylus Linnaeus, 1758 and B. variegatus Schinz, 1825 Nadia de Moraes-Barros, Ana Paula Giorgi, Sofia Silva, João Stenghel Morgante 62 Activity Patterns, Preference and Use of Floristic Resources by Bradypus variegatus in a Tropical Dry Forest Fragment, Santa Catalina, Bolívar, Colombia Leyn Castro-Vásquez, Marlon Meza, Tinka Plese, Sergio Moreno-Mora Edentata no. 11(1) • 2010 i 70 Swimming in the Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) in Panama Helen Esser, Danielle Brown, Yorick Liefting 73 Presence of Amblyomma cajennense in Wild Giant Armadillos (Priodontes maximus) of the Pantanal Matogrossense, Brazil Flávia Regina Miranda, Rodrigo Hidalgo Friciello Teixeira, Gilberto Salles Gazêta, Nicolau Maués Serra-Freire, Marinete Amorim 76 Comportamento Sexual de Tatu-Bola (Tolypeutes tricinctus, Dasypodidae) Onildo João Marini-Filho, Marília Marques Guimarães 78 Registro da Preguiça-de-Coleira Bradypus torquatus (Pilosa, Bradypodidae) em Três Localidades do Estado do Rio de Janeiro: Nova Friburgo, Cachoeiras de Macacu e Teresópolis Ana Carolina Maciel Boffy, Roberto Leonan Morim Novaes, Graziela da Silva Mello, Camila Sant’Anna 81 News 81 Meetings 83 Edentata — Instructions to Authors 87 Edentata — Instrucciones para los autores 91 Edentata — Instruções aos autores ii Edentata no. 11(1) • 2010 Letter from the Editor Welcome to this new issue of Edentata, the Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Special- ist Group! Our Newsletter is steadily growing: this issue includes 15 interesting articles on such diverse topics as the reproductive behavior of anteaters, distribution of armadillos, or the ecology of sloths. As announced in Edentata 8–10, our Newsletter is about to receive a major facelift. We have prepared new Instructions to Authors in English, Spanish and Portuguese. They are available at the end of this issue and can also be downloaded from our website. We kindly ask you to follow them when preparing your manuscripts and short communications for submission to Edentata. We have recently concluded the re-assessment of all xenarthrans for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Many thanks to all researchers who have contributed information on the geographic range, population size and status, habitat and ecology, threats, and existing conservation measures of their study species! We are currently working on a special edition of Edentata, in which we will present the results of the 2009/2010 assessment. So, please stay tuned for Edentata 11(2)! As always, we are looking forward to receiving your articles, thesis abstracts, notes from the field, news items, and any other information related to the conservation of xenarthrans that you would like to publish in Edentata or our website <www.xenarthrans.org>. Enjoy this new issue of Edentata! Mariella Superina, Editor in Chief Edentata no. 11(1) • 2010 iii IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group Members 2009–2012 Chair Mariella Superina, Dr.med.vet., Ph.D. in Conservation Biology Chair, IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group Editor in Chief, Edentata Assistant researcher CONICET IMBECU - CCT CONICET Mendoza Casilla de Correos 855 Mendoza (5500) Argentina E-mail: <[email protected]> Deputy Chair Flávia Miranda, M.Sc. Ecology Ph.D. Student in Applied Ecology, University of São Paulo Projeto Tamanduá / Anteater Project Wildlife Conservation Society – WCS Global Health Programs Av. Agua Fria 269 Água Fria, São Paulo, SP 02333-000 Brazil E-mail: <[email protected]> Website: <www.tamandua.org> Red List Authority Agustín M. Abba, Doctor in Natural Science Assistant Researcher CONICET División Zoología Vertebrados Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP Paseo del Bosque s/n La Plata (1900) Argentina E-mail: <[email protected]> Members John Aguiar, USA Roberto Aguilar, USA Teresa Cristina Anacleto de Silveira, Brazil Adriano Chiarello, Brazil Erika Cuéllar, Bolivia Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca, USA Frédéric Delsuc, France John Gramieri, USA Jim Loughry, USA Colleen McDonough, USA Ísis Meri Medri, Brazil Dennis A. Meritt, USA Nadia Moraes-Barros, Brazil Tinka Plese, Colombia Gustavo Porini, Argentina Virgilio G. Roig, Argentina Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Argentina iv Edentata no. 11(1) • 2010 Albinismo Total em Preguiças-de-Garganta- não necessariamente brancas, e zonas pigmentadas Marrom Bradypus variegatus (Schinz, 1825) em outras regiões do corpo (Constantine, 1957; Herreid e Davis, 1960). no Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil O albinismo é classificado em: ocular — quando Gileno Antonio Araújo Xavier somente os olhos sofrem despigmentação; Maria Adélia Borstelmann de Oliveira parcial — o organismo produz melanina na maior Adriana Alves Quirino parte do corpo, mas em outras partes isso não ocorre; Rinaldo Aparecido Mota oculocutâneo — todo corpo é afetado. Resumo Os albinos são mais evidentes aos predadores (Rodri- gues et al., 1999). Em condições naturais, mamíferos Relata-se a ocorrência de dois casos de albinismo total albinos são selecionados negativamente em função em preguiças-de-garganta-marrom (Bradypus varie- de sua conspicuidade no meio ambiente (Parsons gatus) capturados na Mesorregião Metropolitana do e Bonderup-Nielsen, 1995). A probabilidade de Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil. sucesso dos animais albinos na natureza é maior em espécies de hábito críptico ou noturno ou naqueles Palavras-chave: Bradypus variegatus, preguiça, albi- que apresentam formas eficientes de defesa (Sazima nismo total e Pombal, 1986; Sazima e Di Bernardo, 1991). Abstract No Brasil, existem alguns relatos para pequenos roedo- res (Pessoa e Dos-Reis, 1995;
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    Lamiales – Synoptical classification vers. 2.0 (in prog.) Updated: 13 December, 2005 A Synoptical Classification of the Lamiales Version 2.0 (in progress) Compiled by Richard Olmstead With the help of: D. Albach, B. Bremer, P. Cantino, C. dePamphilis, P. Garnock-Jones, R. Harley, L. McDade, E. Norman, B. Oxelman, J. Reveal, R. Scotland, J. Smith, E. Wallander, A. Weber, A. Wolfe, N. Young, M. Zjhra, and others [estimated # species in Lamiales = 22,000] The goal of this project is to produce a working infraordinal classification of the Lamiales to genus with information on distribution and species richness. All recognized taxa will be clades; adherence to Linnaean ranks is optional. Synonymy is very incomplete (comprehensive synonymy is not a goal of the project, but could be incorporated). Although I anticipate producing a publishable version of this classification at a future date, my near-term goal is to produce a web-accessible version, which will be available to the public and which will be updated regularly through input from systematists familiar with taxa within the Lamiales. For further information on the project and to provide information for future versions, please contact R. Olmstead via email at [email protected], or by regular mail at: Department of Biology, Box 355325, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, USA. Lamiales – Synoptical classification vers. 2.0 (in prog.) Updated: 13 December, 2005 Acanthaceae (~201/3510) Durande, Notions Elém. Bot.: 265. 1782, nom. cons. – Synopsis compiled by R. Scotland & K. Vollesen (Kew Bull. 55: 513-589. 2000); probably should include Avicenniaceae. Nelsonioideae (7/ ) Lindl. ex Pfeiff., Nomencl.
  • A New Miocene Malpighialean Tree from Panama

    A New Miocene Malpighialean Tree from Panama

    Rodriguez-ReyesIAWA Journal et al. – New38 (4), Miocene 2017: malpighialean437–455 wood 437 Panascleroticoxylon crystallosa gen. et sp. nov.: a new Miocene malpighialean tree from Panama Oris Rodriguez-Reyes1, 2, Peter Gasson3, Carolyn Thornton4, Howard J. Falcon-Lang5, and Nathan A. Jud6 1Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón Republic of Panamá 2Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Exactas y Tecnología, Universidad de Panamá, Apartado 000 17, Panamá 0824, Panamá 3Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, United Kingdom 4Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O. Box 185, 15807 Teller County Road 1, Florissant, CO 80816, U.S.A. 5Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom 6L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Department of Plant Biology, 412 Mann Library Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A. *Corresponding author; e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT We report fossil wood specimens from two Miocene sites in Panama, Central America: Hodges Hill (Cucaracha Formation; Burdigalian, c.19 Ma) and Lago Alajuela (Alajuela Formation; Tortonian, c.10 Ma), where material is preserved as calcic and silicic permineralizations, respectively. The fossils show an unusual combination of features: diffuse porous vessel arrangement, simple perforation plates, alternate intervessel pitting, vessel–ray parenchyma pits either with much reduced borders or similar to the intervessel pits, abundant sclerotic tyloses, rays markedly heterocellular with long uniseriate tails, and rare to absent axial parenchyma. This combination of features allows assignment of the fossils to Malpighiales, and we note similarities with four predominantly tropical families: Salicaceae, Achariaceae, and especially, Phyllanthaceae, and Euphorbiaceae.