Replication Data for: Checklist of the Baturité Mountain Environmental Protection Area, Ceará, Brazil

The present work carried out an inventory of species from the Baturité Mountain Environmental Protection Area. Five kingdoms of living beings were registered through the analysis of 135 publications and the online platform of the virtual herbarium of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, providing data on occurrence, conservation status, endemism and exotic and migratory species, resulting in the compilation of 1,338 tax distributed across nine phyla, 20 classes, 92 orders and 260 families, with 672 species belonging to the Animalia Kingdom, 654 species from the Plantae Kingdom, 10 species from the Fungi Kingdom, one species from the Monera Kingdom and one species from the Protist Kingdom. A total of 206 endemic species to the Brazilian territory and 110 nationally and internationally threatened species were identified, in addition to 39 species of exotic animals and plants from the Brazilian territory and 33 migratory birds. These numbers highlight the Baturité Mountain EPA as a priority preservation area of extreme biological importance, exposing the great biodiversity and distribution of these taxa in this relictual forest, facilitating access to such information for dissemination and scientific research, as well as the conservation and preservation of the biodiversity of this Protected Area in the face of the current overexploitation of natural resources. (2024-04-12)