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Honduras review confirms 227 native mammal species after eight-year effort

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What to know about Honduras review confirms 227 native mammal species after eight-year effort

An eight-year international research effort has resulted in a comprehensive review of mammals in Honduras, verifying 227 native species. Published in the journal ZooKeys, the study provides distribution data and conservation summaries to assist future biological research and policy decisions.

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Honduras review confirms 227 native mammal species after eight-year effort Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Senior Editor An eight-year international research effort has produced the most comprehensive review of Honduras' mammals since 1998,…

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The study, published in the open-access journal ZooKeys, also forecasts that as many as 28 further species could eventually be confirmed in the country, bringing the potential total to 258.

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Turcios-Casco of the Asociación para la Sostenibilidad e Investigación Científica en Honduras (ASICH) and the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz in Brazil, together with 14 co-authors from institutions across Honduras, the United States, Brazil, Guatemala…

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An eight-year international research effort has resulted in a comprehensive review of mammals in Honduras, verifying 227 native species. Published in the journal ZooKeys, the study provides distribution data and conservation summaries to assist future biological research and policy decisions.

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Claim 1: “Taxonomy, natural history, and conservation of the mammals of Honduras, ZooKeys (2026). DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1288.129555”
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The title of the paper and its publication in ZooKeys are mentioned in multiple search results. Note: The date 2026 appears in the evidence, which is accepted as current per instructions.
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web search NEUTRAL — ZooKeys is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering zoological taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography. It was established in 2008 and the founding editor-in-chief was Terry Erwin (Smiths…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZooKeys
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web search NEUTRAL — Zookeys was the first to implement semantic tagging and enhancements of content since the publication of its issue 50 in 2010. Currently, ZooKeys takes second place in the Index of Organism Names amon…
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web search NEUTRAL — Taxonomy, natural history, and conservation of the mammals of Honduras, ZooKeys (2026).
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-honduras-native-mammal-species…
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Claim 2: “The study, published in the open-access journal ZooKeys”
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Two separate web search results confirm the study was published in the open-access journal ZooKeys.
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web search NEUTRAL — An eight-year international research effort has produced the most comprehensive review of Honduras' mammals since 1998, verifying 227 native species across 146 genera and 42 families, along with three…
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web search NEUTRAL — Honduras has 227 confirmed native mammal species, according to an eight-year international research effort that has produced the country's most comprehensive review of mammals since 1998. The study, p…
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web search NEUTRAL — ACS Hybrid Journals. ACS Publications and Open Science.ACS publishes a range of fully open access journals, covering all aspects of the chemical sciences and related fields.
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Claim 3: “The research was led by Manfredo A. Turcios-Casco of the Asociación para la Sostenibilidad e Investigación Científica en Honduras (ASICH) and the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz in Brazil”
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Web search results confirm Manfredo A. Turcios-Casco is a biologist from Honduras, co-founder of ASICH, and associated with the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz in Brazil.
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web search NEUTRAL — Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC).MA Turcios-Casco, A Medina-Fitoria. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 54 (1), 69-72, 2019.
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=l7Dhgc0AAAAJ&hl=…
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web search NEUTRAL — I am a biologist from Honduras, holding an MSc in Biodiversity and currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Zoology. I am co-founder of the NGO ASICH (Association for Scientific Research and Sustainabl…
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manfredo-Turcios-Casco
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 Laboratório de Etnoconservacao e Áreas Protegidas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, BA, Brazil Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Ilhéus Brazil.Manfredo A. Turcios-Casco, Vinícius Cardo…
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Claim 4: “verifying 227 native species across 146 genera and 42 families, along with three introduced rodent species”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — World War II, or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945), was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participa…
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Claim 5: “together with 14 co-authors from institutions across Honduras, the United States, Brazil, Guatemala and Costa Rica, including Panthera Honduras, the Smithsonian Institution and the Wildlife Conservation Society”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States was, in 1824, the second country to recognize the independence of Brazil, after Argentina did so in 1823. Brazil was the only South American nation to send troops to fight in Europe …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — International reaction to the 2009 Honduran coup d'état of June 28, 2009, was that the coup was widely repudiated around the globe. The United Nations, every other country in the Western Hemisphere (e…
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Claim 6: “An eight-year international research effort has produced the most comprehensive review of Honduras' mammals since 1998”
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Two independent web search results explicitly state that an eight-year international research effort produced the most comprehensive review of Honduras' mammals since 1998.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Although the tournament was played from January to July 1999, this is officially known as the 1998–99 season in the Honduran football league, it was also the last non-Apertura-Clausura format season p…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Honduras national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Honduras) represents Honduras in men's international football, which is governed by the Federación de Fútbol de Honduras (English: …
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Claim 7: “The resulting work spans nearly 200 pages of species accounts, distribution data and conservation summaries”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Isleña de Inversiones S.A. de C.V. branded Avianca Honduras is a regional airline based in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It offered mostly scheduled and chartered passenger flights out of its hub at Ramón…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Honduran Navy is one of the Armed Forces of Honduras's three branches. The Honduran Navy was created through a presidential decree in the 14th of August 1976, with the stated goal of defending Hon…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The lempira (Spanish pronunciation: [lemˈpiɾa], sign: L; code: HNL) is the currency of Honduras. It is subdivided into 100 centavos.
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Claim 8: “Compiling the review meant verifying more than 300,000 records drawn from museum collections, scientific publications, technical reports and previously unpublished field observations dating back to the 1960s”
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web search NEUTRAL — Compiling the review meant verifying more than 300,000 records drawn from museum collections, scientific publications, technical reports and previously unpublished field observations dating back to th…
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