Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Davy's Naked-backed Bat FAMILY - Mormoopidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Pteronotus davyi fulvus SYNONYMS - Pteronotus suapurensis calvus Goodwin 1958 REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 11 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 Government land 6 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 4 Gallon Jug Captured or Mist net Dry season 7 Shipstern Nature Reserve Captured or Mist net Dry season 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 10 Hydrologic Association Reference New River 10 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 6 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 8 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 9 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 10 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 8 Subtropical wet 13 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 13 General Distribution Comments 10* Hill Bank; La Milpa 9* Trapped at cave west of Sarteneja airstrip, in second growth. 6* Central Farm; Ontario; Teakettle; Unitedville; Tower Hill BSI; Aguacate; San Antonio, Toledo. 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. 1:94-95 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.52-53 5 Anonymous. Rio Bravo Mammal List Update. 1994. Unpublished list. pp.1-2 6 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. 7 Miller, C.M., B.W. Miller. 1994 (Nov.). Working Checklist: Mammals of Gallon Jug and Chan Chich Lodge Area. Unpublished list. 8 Quigley, H. B., B. W. Miller, C. M. Miller. 1995. Mammal Survey, Shipstern Nature Reserve, April 4-13, 1995. Unpublished report for ITCF. 9 Miller, B.W.,1995. Bat distribution records for Belize. In prep. 10 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 11 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics in Handbook of Zoology. W de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p. 71. 12 Adams, James K., 1989. Pteronotus davyi. Mammalian Species No. 346. pp.1-5. American Society of Mammalogists. 13 Miller, Bruce W. 1996. Preliminary mammal distribution and atlas project. WCS Belize Zoogeography Project.
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