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Published 2016-06-15
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The Colombian Weasel (Mustela felipei) is perhaps the rarest carnivore species in South America (Schreiber et al. 1989), due to the small number of known and validated records (Ramírez-Chaves et al. 2012, Ramírez-Chaves & Patterson 2014) . The species can be included in category C of rarity, according to Arita et al. (1990), because it has restricted distribution and low population densities. Although it has been mentioned that there are at least 10 registration locations (Emmons & Helgen 2008, Burneo et al. 2009), it has also been shown that many of them lack support (Ramírez Chaves & Mantilla-Meluk 2009, Ramírez-Chaves et al. 2012), due to these circumstances a call for prudence has been made when it comes to presenting records on the species (Ramírez-Chaves et al. 2012).
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