The biome Cerrado has a high diversity of landscapes featuring different vegetation phytophisiognomy that make it as one of world's richest floristic savannahs (MENDONÇA ET AL., 1998). This habitat heterogeneity promotes the diversity of fauna. Because of these and other several reasons Cerrado is considered one of the world's most important, comprising 5% of the global biodiversity, approximately 7,000 plant species, 1,200 fish, 150 amphibians, 180 reptiles, 837 birds and 199 mammal, which 44% of vascular plants, 28% of amphibians, 17% of reptiles, 3.4% birds and 9.5% of mammals are endemic to the biome (KLINK & MACHADO, 2005). In addition, the cerrado has a terrestrial vertebrate fauna distinct from other biomes (COLLI, 2002; RODRIGUES, 2005). From the biogeographical point of view, the Cerrado fauna boasts several groups restricted to specific environments, in general shares elements of the adjacent biomes, giving it a more general character.
