Report on the mammals of Quimsacocha National Recreation Area, Azuay Province, Ecuador

Quimsacocha National Recreation Area is located on the western slope of Andes in Azuay Province, southern Ecuador. All sampling locations were high paramo and Andean forests (3,572 to 3,865 m). The habitats include paramo, bogs, riparian, patches elfin forests, secondary cloud forest. We set Sherman, pitfall, camera traps (3,600 trap nights), mist nets collect 117 specimens. Eight species collected, including Caenolestes caniventer Anthony 1921; Didelphis pernigra J.A. Allen, 1900; Cryptotis montivagus (Anthony, 1921); Akodon mollis Thomas, 1894; Microryzomys altissimus (Osgood, 1933), Phyllotis haggardi 1908; Sigmodon inopinatus Anthony, 1924; Sylvilagus andinus (Thomas, 1897). Two additional Coendou rufescens (Gray, 1865) Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann, 1780) documented photographically. This first survey that saved voucher specimens for mammals Quimsacocha.