Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Thomas' fruit-eating bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Artibeus watsoni

  SYNONYMS - Demanura watsoni

  REFERENCES - 1, 2 and 3

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Belize                                                               2
  Cayo                                                                 2
  Orange Walk                                                          2
  Stann Creek                                                          2
  Toledo                                                               2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Town or Village, see comments.        Collected as voucher Wet season       9
  Columbia River Forest Reserve                              Permanent        6
  Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary                                          5
  Bladen Nature Reserve                                                       4
  Gallon Jug                            Captured or Mist net Dry season       7
  Shipstern Nature Reserve              Captured or Mist net Dry season       8
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           9
  16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30'           5
  16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00'           4
  17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15'           7
  18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15'           8
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Subtropical moist                            8
  

  General Distribution Comments

  9* 1 specimen, 11 Jul, 1980, J.C. Unruh collection U. Ks. Nat. Hist. Mus.
  2* specimen from Gallon Jug
  5* Quebrado de Oro
  6* voucher specimen taken

  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. 1:161-162
  
  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  McCarthy, T. J., M. Blake. 1987.  Noteworthy bat records from the Maya
     Mountains Forest Reserve, Belize.  Mammalia v. 51, No. 1, pp.161-164
  
  5  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
  
  6  Parker, T. A. III, B. K. Holst, L. H. Emmons, J. R. Meyer.  1993.  A
     Biological Assessment of the Columbia River Forest Reserve, Toledo
     District, Belize.  pp.23-25, p. 80
  
  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  University of Kansas Natural History Museum. 1995.  Belize Mammal
     holdings.  Unpublished listing of catalog.
  
  10 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.