Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Mexican Bulldog Bat FAMILY - Noctilionidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Noctilio leporinus mastivus REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 14 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places 4 District Reference Belize 2 Cayo 2 Corozal 2 Orange Walk 2 Stann Creek 2 Toledo 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Columbia River Forest Reserve 12 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Captured or Mist net Dry season 10 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Dry season 9 Chiquibul Forest Reserve 8 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 6 Bladen Nature Reserve 5 Chiquibul National Park Sighting Dry season 11 Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 13 Hydrologic Association Reference Macal River 13 Macal River 10 Cox's Lagoon 9 Raspaculo River 8 Mussel Creek 7 Belize River 12 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 16 30' to 16 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 11 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 12 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 12 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 12 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 12 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 12 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 10 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 6 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 13 General Distribution Comments 13* Chaa Creek Cottages, along Macal River 12* Banana Bank; Barton Creek at West Hwy; Aguacate River. 11* Natural Arch & Rio Ceiba Grande 10* Francelia Camp, Macal River 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. 1:86-87 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.50-51 5 McCarthy, T. J., M. Blake. 1987. Noteworthy bat records from the Maya Mountains Forest Reserve, Belize. Mammalia v. 51, No. 1, pp.161-164 6 Rabinowitz, A.; B. G. Nottingham, Jr. 1989. Mammal species richness and relative abundance of small mammals in a subtropical wet forest of Central America. Mammalia V. 53, No. 2, pp.217-226 7 Weyer, D. 1994. Proposal to Establish the Mussel Creek Drainage as a Wildlife Sanctuary. p.18 8 Rodgers, A.D.F.; D. A. Sutton, eds. 1991. Report of the Joint Services Scientific Expedition to the Upper Raspaculo. Unpub. report. pp. E-1-1 and E-1-2 9 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.3-4 10 Clark, W. C. 1992. Mammal Surveys Along the Macal River in Areas to be Affected by the Belize Electricity Board's Proposed Hydroelectric Project. pp.3-16. Draft report in Macal River Hydroelectric Development Environmental Impact Assessment Rubber Camp and Chalillo Schemes Pre-feasibility Study - Draft Environmental Appendix. Volume II of III. 11 Matola, S., ed. 1992. The Maya Divide Expedition 1-15 May. Unpub. report. 12 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. 13 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. 14 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46. 15 Hood, Craig S., J. Knox Jones Jr. 1984. Noctilio leporinus. Mammalian Species No. 216:1-7. The American Society of Mammalogists.
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