Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Lesser White-lined bat FAMILY - Emballonuridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Saccopteryx leptura REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 7 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places 4 District Reference Toledo 5 Orange Walk 6 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Columbia River Forest Reserve 5 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 6 Hydrologic Association Reference New River 6 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 General Distribution Comments 6* 1 allegedly netted at Hillbank, probably S. bilineata. 5* Salamanca Camp 2* not shown for Belize 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. 1:80 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.45-46 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 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 7 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.
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