Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Parnell's Mustached Bat FAMILY - Mormoopidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Pteronotus parnellii mesoamericanus SYNONYMS - Chilonyctris rubiginosus Wagner 1843 and Phyllodia parnellii Gray 1843 REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 15 and 16 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 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher Dry season 12 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Captured or Mist net Dry season 7 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 6 Bladen Nature Reserve 5 Gallon Jug Captured or Mist net Dry season 8 Shipstern Nature Reserve Heard Dry season 9 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Collected as voucher Dry season 11 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher August 13 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher March 12 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 14 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 9 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 11 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 13 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 14 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 12 Subtropical moist 13 Subtropical moist 9 General Distribution Comments 14* Hillbank; La Milpa. 12* ROM Rockstone Pond. 13* LSU 0.75mi. E Corozal 11* Trapped and recorded at cave W of Sarteneja Airstrip. 2* specimen from Stann Creek Valley 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. 1:90-92 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 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 Jacobson, S. 1990. Wildlife Inventory of the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area. Parts I and II. Appendix 2. 7 Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub. report for Wildlife Conservation Society. 8 Miller, C.M., B.W. Miller. 1994 (Nov.). Working Checklist: Mammals of Gallon Jug and Chan Chich Lodge Area. Unpublished list. 9 Quigley, H. B., B. W. Miller, C. M. Miller. 1995. Mammal Survey, Shipstern Nature Reserve, April 4-13, 1995. Unpublished report for ITCF. 10 Cartwright, Anne McKnight Furnish. 1977. Patterns of Neotropical Chiroptera Reproduction Including Histological and Ecological Aspects of Bats Collected In Belize. Dissertation for Doctor of Education. Ball State University. Muncie, Indiana. 11 Miller, B.W.,1995. Bat distribution records for Belize. In prep. 12 ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario Museum. 13 LSU Museum of Natural Science, Belize collection. August 31, 1995. Curator: Mark S. Hafner. 14 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 15 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46. 16 Heard, R. M. 1983. Pteronotus parnellii. Mammalian Species. No.209. pp.1-5. American Society of Mammalogists.
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