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Skulls found in Tyto furcata pellets from the Reserva Natural da Guaricica, identified by genus. Left to the rule, skulls are shown in dorsal view. Right to the rule, skulls are shown in ventral view.
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Small mammals (Rodentia) present in Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827) (Strigiformes, Tytonidae) pellets from the Reserva Natural da Guaricica, Antonina, coastal Paraná, Brazil
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... total of 2,900 pellets were collected, as most pellets didn't contain enough cranial structures for identification, we recovered 133 individual rodents representing seven taxa: Oligoryzomys sp., Nectomys squamipes (Brants, 1827), Akodon sp., Holochilus brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819), Brucepattersonius sp., Oxymycterus sp. and Euryoryzomys russatus (Wagner, 1848) ( Figure 1). Quadros and Tiepolo (2003), and Silveira (2012), employed conventional trapping methods in RNG, and registered altogether 11 species in Rodentia. ...
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