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Budha, Kathmandu, Nepal Dr. Ignacy Kitowski, Lublin, Poland continued on the back inside cover JoTT COMMUNI C ATION 4(6): 2617–2628 Species diversity of small mammals at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan, Malaysia Vijaya Kumaran Jayaraj 1, Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir 2, Noor Amirah Udin 3, Noor Farahin Kamarul Baharin 4, Siti Katijah Ismail 5 & Siti Noor Azwa Zakaria 6 1,2,3,4,5,6 Faculty of Agro Industry and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Jeli Campus Locked bag No. 100, 17600 Jeli, Kelantan, Malaysia Email: 1 [email protected] (corresponding author), 2 [email protected], 3 [email protected], 4 [email protected], 5 [email protected], 6 [email protected] Date of publication (online): 26 June 2012 Abstract: A recent small mammal survey was conducted in Gunung Stong State Park. Date of publication (print): 26 June 2012 Standard mist nets, harp traps and cage traps were used to document diversity of small ISSN 0974-7907 (online) | 0974-7893 (print) mammals in this new protected area. This study reports five new distributional records of bats in Gunung Stong State Park and a first record ofMyotis muricola in Kelantan. The Editor: Giovanni Amori study also shows that Gunung Stong State Park is one of the three areas in Peninsular Manuscript details: Malaysia where all four Cynopterus species that can be found in Peninsular Malaysia Ms # o3015 coexist. This protected area also has Maxomys rajah, M. whiteheadi and Niviventer Received 21 November 2011 cremoriventer which are currently listed as Vulnerable, highlighting this location as an Final received 09 April 2012 important conservation area for small mammals. Continuous surveys are needed as Finally accepted 08 May 2012 information of small mammal diversity in Kelantan is still scarce, and this study is a part of a series of small mammal surveys that have been carried out in Kelantan. Citation: Jayaraj, V.K., N.F.D.A. Tahir, N.A.Udin, N.F.K. Baharin, S.K. Ismail & S.N.A. Zakaria (2012). Species diversity of small mammals at Keywords: Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan, new record, small mammals, species Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan, Malaysia. diversity. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(6): 2617–2628. Copyright: © Vijaya Kumaran Jayaraj, Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir, Noor Amirah Udin, Noor Farahin Kamarul Baharin, Siti Katijah INTRODUCTION Ismail & Siti Noor Azwa Zakaria 2012. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this article in any Gunung Stong State Park, Malaysia which covers an area of 21,950ha, medium for non-profit purposes, reproduction and distribution by providing adequate credit to is situated north west of Kelantan in the district of Kuala Krai (Maseri the authors and the source of publication. & Mohd-Ros 2005). This state park is strategically positioned as part Author Contribution: VKJ is the corresponding of a large forest block that includes the Titiwangsa Range, the Belum- author of this paper. He provided the funding, led the field work and overall writing of the Temenggor and the Ulu Muda forests in Malaysia, and connects with manuscript. NFDAT, NAU, NFKB, SKI and the stretch of forests in Hala Bala Wildlife Sanctuary and the Bang Lang SNAZ was part of the field survey team and they volunteered to co-author this paper and National Park in southern Thailand (Maseri & Mohd-Ros 2005). This produced the first draft of the paper including the tabulation of results. positioning, coupled with the buffering effect of various forests reserves around the area, is most suitable for fauna conservation as many iconic For Author Details and Acknowledgments large mammals such as tigers, elephants, deer and leopards are found See end of this article. there (Zafir et al. 2005). Gunung Stong State Park is also a good area for ecotourism. Its center of attraction is the Jelawang waterfall which is hailed as the highest waterfall in Southeast Asia (Yusoff et al. 2005). This state park also has iconic flora and fauna, that appeal to nature photographers, such as hornbills, banded leaf monkeys, colugo, the endemic Fan Palm Licuda stongensis, the endemic Bamboo Holtummochloa pubescens and Rafflesia kerrii (Latiff & Faridah-Hanum 2005). Together with several mountain UNIVERSITI peaks such as Gunung Ayam, Gunung Tera and Gunung Stong, this place MALAYSIA KELANTAN is suitable for a variety of recreational activities and has been listed in the 2006 Malaysian National Economic Plan as one of the top 10 special places for ecotourism. OPEN ACCESS | FREE DOWNLOAD According to Bourliere (1975), small mammals have adult weights Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | June | 4(6): 2617–2628 2617 Small mammals of Gunung Stong V.K. Jayaraj et al. ranging from 2gm to 5kg. The majority of species MATERIALS AND METHODS in this category are from the high diversity orders Rodentia and Chiroptera, and Lagomorpha, Insectivora The main sampling areas of this study were the and Scandentia are also in this group. The importance Gunung Stong State Park headquarters and Gua Ikan of Rodentia and Chiroptera in the ecology of the (Image 1). Two trails near the park headquaters were tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia is recognized, yet chosen as sampling stations for bats. The first sampling the small mammals of Kelantan are not well known, station was Stong Trail 1 (5020.352’N & 101058.503’E, with records of surveys from EIA surveys on certain elevation 100–200 m) and the second sampling station development projects such as the Pergau, Lebir and was Stong Trail 3 (5020.353’N & 101058.505’E, 100– Negiri Dam Project (see Pue & Latiff 2005) and 200 m). The vegetation at the first sampling station surveys conducted by Zafir et al. (2005), Shukor et al. was hill vegetation with some bamboo plots, and the (2005) and Mariana et al. (2005). The objective of second sampling station was in the vicinity of the forest this study was to survey the diversity and abundance ecotone.