Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Pygmy fruit-eating bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Artibeus phaeotis phaeotis SYNONYMS - Demanura phaeotis Miller 1902, Demanura rava Miller 1902 and Artibeus turpis Anderson 1906 REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 12 and 13 District Reference Belize 2 Cayo 2 Corozal 2 Orange Walk 2 Stann Creek 2 Toledo 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Caracol Archaeological Reserve Captured or Mist net Dry season 7 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 6 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 5 Bladen Nature Reserve 4 Gallon Jug Captured or Mist net Dry season 8 Gallon Jug Collected as voucher February 9 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher August 9 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Collected as voucher February 10 Government land Collected as voucher February 10 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher March 10 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher Dry season 10 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 11 Hydrologic Association Reference New River 11 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 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' 8 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 9 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 10 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 10 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 11 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 10 Subtropical moist 10 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 10 Subtropical moist 9 Subtropical moist 9 General Distribution Comments 11* Hillbank; La Milpa. 10* Rockstone Pond; Salt Creek. Estate; Central Farm; Augustine. 9* E. of Corozal. 5* Quebrado de Oro 6* shown as Demanura 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. 1:162-163 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 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 LSU Museum of Natural Science, Belize collection. August 31, 1995. Curator: Mark S. Hafner. 10 ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario Museum. 11 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 12 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46. 13 Timm, R. M. 1985. Artibeus phaeotis. Mammalian Species. No.235. pp.1-6. American Society of Mammalogists.
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