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ARTURO CASO1 AND EFRAÍN F. DOMINGUEZ2 the north-central part of the state of Tamau- lipas (Fig. 1). The climate is semi-arid and Confirmed presence of jaguar, the highest elevation (1,786 m) is at Cerro el Hongo (Martínez 1998). Total annual precipi- ocelot and jaguarundi in the tation is about 734.8 mm and it is considered as the southern limit of the Tamaulipan Biotic Sierra of San Carlos, Mexico Province (Dice 1943). Sierra of San Carlos has five types of vegetation that include desert In northeast Mexico the occurrence of the jaguar Panthera onca, ocelot Leopardus shrub, thorn shrub, deciduous forest, pine-oak pardalis and jaguarundi Herpailurus yagouaroundi is not well known. Because of forest, and riparian forest (Martínez 1998). lack of confirmed reports, no recent publications mention the Sierra of San Carlos De la Torre et al. (2017) did not include in within the actual range of these felines. Here, we provide a series of photographs their analysis the Sierra of San Carlos as a taken with a remote sensing camera of these three species at the Rancho Sílica that potential area for jaguar distribution (Fig. 1). is located in the northern part of the Sierra of San Carlos in Tamaulipas, Mexico. We Rodriguez-Soto et al. (2011) included the believe that these distribution records will improve the knowledge about the range Sierra of San Carlos but as one of the low- of these species and therefore could lead to better conservation actions. We hope est percentage of probability for jaguar that the Sierra of San Carlos will be included within the Mexican protected area occurrence. In a distribution analyses for system in the future. jaguar, ocelot and jaguarundi for northeast Mexico, although Carvajal (2016) could not The distribution range of the jaguar, ocelot and of the records reported in the literature should find any confirmed records of these species jaguarundi in northeast Mexico is not well re- be taken with caution because they may come within the Sierra of San Carlos, her analysis cognised. The state of Tamaulipas is by far, the from unreliable sources (Carvajal 2016). did include the Sierra as a potential area for least surveyed state in Mexico (Rodriguez-So- The Sierra of San Carlos (24°30' & 25°00' N / the distribution of the three cat species. to et al. 2011) and still some new distribution 98°30' & 99° 15' W) also known as the Sierra However, on multiple occasions co-author of records are often discovered. However, some Chiquita or Cruillas, is a mountain range in this note, E. Dominguez, had ocelots and ja-
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Fig. 2. Ocelot photographed at Rancho Fig. 3. Jaguarundi photographed at Ran- Fig. 4. Jaguar photographed at Rancho Sílica, Sierra of San Carlos, Tamaulipas, cho Sílica, Sierra of San Carlos, Tamaulipas, Sílica, Sierra of San Carlos, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Mexico. Mexico.
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