Abstract

MOSQUERA, Diego; BLAKE, John G; ROMO, David  and  SWING, Kelly. New observations of living Echimys saturnus (dark tree rat, Echimyidae) from eastern Ecuador. Mastozool. neotrop. [online]. 2016, vol.23, n.1, pp.87-91. ISSN 0327-9383.

The dark tree rat, Echimys saturnus (Thomas, 1928) is a poorly-known member of the Echimyidae family known from only a few records at scattered localities in the eastern Andean foothills. All Echimys species are difficult to see or capture and little is known about their geographic range and behavior. Here we report new observations, activity patterns and what, to our knowledge, are the first videos obtained for this species.

Keywords : Behavior; Camera trap; Echimyidae; Echimys saturnus; Tree rat.