Occurrence records of different mammal species from several localities in Kenya

Many sighting observations of Kenyan mammal species are captured in various literature both in print and electronic media, peer-reviewed articles, various websites, and individuals field observations notebooks. However, few of these records have ever been digitized and published for use by scientific community. We reviewed websites, books and retrieved data from our field notebooks observations of medium and large sized mammals and compiled this dataset from different localities in 15 counties in Kenya. A total of 1,659 mammal species records, comprising of 156 mammal species were recorded in this analysis represented by 14 mammal orders namely; Cetartiodactyla (Even-toed and whales and dolphins (44 spp.); Order Pholidota (Pangolins–two spp.), Order Hyracoidea (Hyraxes–three spp.), Tubulidentata (Aardvark–one spp.), Carnivora (Carnivores) 29 spp.), Chiroptera (Bats) 8 spp.), Erinaceomorpha (Hedgehogs) 1 spp.), Lagomorpha (Hares) 3 spp.), Macroscelidea (Elephant shrews) 3 spp.), Primates (Wild primates and man) 9 spp.), Proboscidae (African elephants) 1 spp.), Rodentia (Rodents) 42 spp.), Order Perissodactyla (Odd-toed Ungulates–4 spp.) and Soricomorpha (White-toothed shrews (6 spp.). We recommend further review of literature, digitization, and publication of the Kenyan mammal data in order to make such data available for future scientific research.肯尼亚哺乳动物物种的诸多目击观测记录，散见于各类印刷与电子媒介文献、同行评议学术论文、各类网站以及研究者个人的野外观测笔记中。然而，其中仅有极少部分记录被数字化并公开发布，可供科研社群使用。本研究通过梳理相关网站、图书资料，并从我们针对中大型哺乳动物的野外观测笔记中提取数据，最终基于肯尼亚15个县的不同采集区域信息编制完成本数据集。本次分析共收录1659条哺乳动物观测记录，涵盖156个哺乳动物物种，隶属于14个哺乳动物目：偶蹄目（Cetartiodactyla，包含偶蹄类、鲸类与海豚类，共44种）、穿山甲目（Pholidota，穿山甲，2种）、蹄兔目（Hyracoidea，蹄兔，3种）、管齿目（Tubulidentata，土豚，1种）、食肉目（Carnivora，食肉动物，29种）、翼手目（Chiroptera，蝙蝠，8种）、猬形目（Erinaceomorpha，刺猬，1种）、兔形目（Lagomorpha，野兔，3种）、象鼩目（Macroscelidea，象鼩，3种）、灵长目（Primates，野生灵长类及人类，9种）、长鼻目（Proboscidae，非洲象，1种）、啮齿目（Rodentia，啮齿类，42种）、奇蹄目（Perissodactyla，奇蹄类有蹄动物，4种）以及鼩形目（Soricomorpha，白齿鼩，6种）。我们建议进一步开展文献梳理、数据数字化与公开发布工作，以推动肯尼亚哺乳动物观测数据的共享，助力未来相关科学研究。