Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Long-legged bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Macrophyllum macrophyllum

  SYNONYMS - Phyllostoma macrophyllum - Schinz 1821 and Macrophyllum nieuwiedi- Gray 1838

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 6

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat.          4
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Cayo                                                                 5
  Toledo                                                               2
  

  

                                                                               
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Sibun River                          5
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30'           5
  16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45'           5
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  5* Big Fall; Indian Creek Sibun River.

  References

  1  McCarthy, T. J. 1993. Checklist: Mammals of Belize. BAS Newsletter
     25 (2-3).
  
  2  Hall, E. R. 1981. Mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley &
     Sons. New York. 1:107-108
  
  3  Koopman, Karl F. 1993. Chiroptera. in  Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder,
     eds, Mammalian species of the world, 2nd ed, Smithsonian Institution
     Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 137-241.
  
  4  Emmons, L. H. 1990.  Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, a field guide.
     University of Chicago Press.  Chicago and London.
     p.56
  
  5  McCarthy, T. J. 1987. Distributional records of bats from the Caribbean
     lowlands of Belize and adjacent Guatemala and Mexico. In: Studies in
     Neotropical Mammalogy: Essays in Honor of Philip Hershkovitz (B.D.
     Patterson and R.M. Timm, eds.). Fieldiana:n.s. No. 39:137-162.
  
  6  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.