The Pedra Branca Forest is located in a highly-urbanised region of the central portion of Rio de Janeiro City, comprises the largest urban forest on the continent and is isolated from other Atlantic Forest remnants. The local flora and fauna are protected by three conservation units (Pedra Branca State Park, Prainha Municipal Natural Park and Guaratiba State Biological Reserve) and one biological station (Fiocruz Atlantic Forest Biological Station-EFMA). Here, we provide an updated list of the bat fauna for the remnant. The results are based on samplings at EFMA and literature data from Pedra Branca State Park and Prainha Natural Park. The three sampling sites combined resulted in 31 species, 23 genera and four families. Phyllostomidae was the richest family with 24 species, followed by Vespertilionidae with five species (3%) and Molossidae and Noctilionidae with one species. The local bat fauna was predominantly composed of species with a broad geographic distribution.
Keywords: Chiroptera; bat survey; urban forest; urban wildlife.
Jonatas Amorim Tavares, Roberto Leonan Morim Novaes, Iuri Veríssimo, Maria Alice do Amaral Kuzel, Sócrates Fraga da Costa-Neto, Caroline Lacorte Rangel, Mylena Borges, Helena Medrado, Bruno Alves, Renan de França Souza, Ana Carolina Duarte Pinto Menezes, Luis Fernando Menezes-Júnior, Daniela Dias, Cecilia Siliansky de Andreazzi, Rosana Gentile, Ricardo Moratelli.