Frontier Tanzania Environmental Research REPORT 110 ...
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Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve<br />
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Table 19 Small mammal species captured at trapsites in Kazimzumbwi FR.<br />
Species Common name Number recorded at each trapsite<br />
BATS<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total<br />
NYCTERIDAE<br />
Nycteris sp. Slit-faced bat 4 4<br />
HIPPOSIDERIDAE<br />
Hipposideros ruber Leaf-nosed bat 1 1<br />
RHINOLOPHIDAE<br />
Rhinolophus simulator Horseshoe bat 1 1<br />
SHREWS<br />
Totals 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 6<br />
SORICIDAE<br />
Crocidura sp. White-toothed shrew 2 2 5 9<br />
RODENTS<br />
CRICETOMINAE<br />
Totals 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 9<br />
Beamys hindei Lesser pouched rat 3 2 5<br />
DENDROMURINAE<br />
Dendromys sp. Climbing mouse 2 1 1 4<br />
MURIDAE<br />
Acomys sp. Spiny mouse 19 19<br />
Grammomys sp. A Narrow-footed woodland<br />
1 1 2<br />
mouse<br />
Grammomys sp. B Narrow-footed woodland<br />
9 9<br />
mouse<br />
Lemniscomys sp. Zebra mouse 1 1<br />
Mastomys natalensis Multimammate rat 1 1<br />
Mastomys sp. Multimammate rat 14 2 16<br />
Mus sp. Common mouse 2 2<br />
Rattus rattus Black rat 1 1<br />
Totals 3 2 0 12 19 21 3 60<br />
The majority of bats were captured at trapsite 4, where mistnets were set up over the River<br />
Mzumbwi. Four of the six records were of only one species; Nycteris sp., although mistnetting<br />
was carried out over a number of consecutive nights and the number of recaptures is unknown but<br />
may bias the results.<br />
Shrews were recorded in half of the trapsites, within Wooded Grassland, Brachystegia Forest and<br />
Mixed dry Coastal Forest. Over half of the individuals recorded were captured at only one<br />
trapsite; trapsite 7.<br />
A high number, at least 12 species, of rodent were recorded; a number which may increase further<br />
on receipt of the formal identification of specimens taken. Rodents were recorded in almost all of<br />
the habitats surveyed. Acomys sp. was the most abundant rodent, although all records were in one<br />
trapsite only. This trapsite was in Brachystegia Forest; a very dry and fairly open habitat.<br />
Mastomys sp. was also found to be abundant, occurring mainly in Wooded Grassland habitats,<br />
where one record of Lemniscomys sp. was also made. Grammomys were recorded only in forest<br />
habitats, as was the near-endemic and forest dependent Beamys hindei. One record of Rattus<br />
rattus was collected, from trapsite 2.<br />
<strong>Frontier</strong>-<strong>Tanzania</strong>Coastal Forest <strong>Research</strong> Programme
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