Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Big Naked-backed Bat

  FAMILY -               Mormoopidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Pteronotus gymnonotus

  SYNONYMS - Dermonotus suapurensis- J.A. Allen 1904, Pteronotus suapurensis centrtalis- Goodwin 1942 and Chilonycteris gymnonotus- Natterer, in Wagner 18

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 5

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places     4
  

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  Toledo                                                               2
  

  

                                                                               
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  

                                                
  

  

                                                
  

  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. 1:95
  
  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  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.