Liste over brasilianske pattedyr

Brasiliens store størrelse og brede vifte af økosystemer og habitater gør det til et af de mest biologisk diverse steder på planeten. Ifølge Living National Treasures-hjemmesiden har Brasilien 175 arter af endemiske pattedyr. Disse inkluderer primater, gnagere, flagermus, possumer, bælteædere, faultre, ræve og bororos.

Primater: Marmoseter og tamariner

Brasilien har 18 arter af marmoseter: 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 og Satere. Landet har også ni arter af tamariner: superagui lion, golden-headed, black lion, golden lion, pied, Martin's, white-mantled, black og red-capped.

Primater: Kapucinaber, titiaber, aber og sakis

Brasilien har tre indfødte arter af kapucinaber (Kaapori, sort og golden-bellied) og to arter af squirrel monkeys (bar-eared og black). Landet har 16 arter af titiaber: 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, og Stephen Wash's. Fire arter af sakis trives i Brasilien (white-nosed, black-bearded, Uta Hick's bearded, og white-footed), såvel som to arter af brøl-aber (red-handed og Amazon black), den hvidt-kindede spider monkey og den sydlige og nordlige muriqui.

Rotte

Brasilien er hjemsted for mere end 40 arter af rotter. De inkluderer painted tree, brush-tailed (Rio Negro og plain), armored tree (dark og giant), Atlantic tree (golden, orange-brown, drab, Kerr's, pallid, Lund's, Mantiqueira, long-furred, black-spined, rusty-sided, giant og 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) og bristle-spined rat.

Andre gnagere

Andre brasilianske gnagerarter inkluderer 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 og tuco-tuco (Brazilian, Flamarion's, Lami).

Andre pattedyr

Brasilien er hjemsted for 12 arter af possumer: 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 og dwarf fat-tailed. Brasilien er også hjemsted for den brasilianske tre-båndede bælteæder, faultren, og fem arter af flagermus (Bokerman's nectar, Dekeyser's nectar, Behn's, Recife broad-nosed og blackish-red). Den grå ræv og Sao Paulo bororo trives også i Brasilien.