Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Wagner's mustached bat

  FAMILY -               Mormoopidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Pteronotus personatus psilotis

  SYNONYMS - Chilonycteris torrei continentis Sanborn 1938

  REFERENCES - 1, 2 and 3

  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                                               6
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area                                Permanent        5
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area           Captured or Mist net Dry season       7
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45'           5
  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45'           7
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  7* Hillbank.
  6* Aguacate River; Big Fall; Crique Jute; Crique Lagarto; Jacinto Creek;
     Salamanca Camp.

  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. 1:93-94
  
  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. 1994. Rio Bravo Mammal Update.  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  Smith, Rosemary L. 1994.  Neotropical Bats as Indicators of
     Environmental Disturbance.  Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of
     Conservation and Ecology. pp.64.
  
  8  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.