Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Central American yellow bat

  FAMILY -               Vespertilionidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Rhogeessa aeneus

  SYNONYMS - Rhogeessa tumida, Rhogeessa parvula and Rhogeessa parvula aeneus

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Belize                                                               2
  Cayo                                                                 2
  Corozal                                                              2
  Orange Walk                                                          2
  Stann Creek                                                          2
  Toledo                                                               2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Bladen Nature Reserve                                      Permanent        4
  Ambergris Cay                         Captured or Mist net Dry season       5
  Turneffe Reef                         Collected as voucher APRIL            7
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area           Captured or Mist net Dry season       8
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00'           4
  17 52'35" to 18 11'30"; 87 49' to 88 03'     5
  17 15' to 17 30'; 87 45' to 88 00'           7
  17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           8
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Marine                                       7
  

  General Distribution Comments

  8* La Milpa
  7* LSU Calabash Caye
  2* specimens from Turneffe Id., Calabash Cay
  5* Quebrado de Oro

  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. 1:228-229
  
  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  McCarthy, T. J., M. Blake. 1987.  Noteworthy bat records from the Maya
     Mountains Forest Reserve, Belize.  Mammalia v. 51, No. 1, pp.161-164
  
  5  Merriman, T. 1993. List of bats caught and observed with Dr. Merlin D.
     Tuttle, BCI Founder's Circle Trip, May 8-17, 1993.  In lit.
  
  6  Audet, D., M. D. Engstrom and M. B. Fenton. 1993.  Morphology,
     karyology, and echolocation calls of Rhogeessa (Chiroptera:
     Vespertilionidae) from the Yucatan Peninsula.  Journal of Mammalogy.
     74(2):498-502.
  
  7  LSU Museum of Natural Science, Belize collection. August 31, 1995.
     Curator: Mark S. Hafner.
  
  8  Smith, Rosemary L. 1994.  Neotropical Bats as Indicators of
     Environmental Disturbance.  Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of
     Conservation and Ecology. pp.64.
  
  9  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.