Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Lowland fruit-eating bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Artibeus toltecus toltecus SYNONYMS - Stenoderma tolteca- Saussure 1860 REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 12 District Reference Cayo 6 Toledo 4 Orange Walk 8 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Baldy Beacon/Baldy Sibun (Proposed) 7 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 7 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Captured or Mist net Dry season 6 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 5 Columbia River Forest Reserve 4 Gallon Jug Captured or Mist net Dry season 8 Gallon Jug Collected as voucher APRIL 9 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Collected as voucher February 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' 6 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 4 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 11 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical Lower Montane moist 10 Subtropical moist 9 General Distribution Comments 11* Hillbank; La Milpa. 10* Augustine 9* shown as A. cinereus 7* Rio Frio; San Luis; Pueblo Viejo; Union Camp 2* not shown in Belize 4* 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. 1:160-161 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 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 5 Clark, W. 1993. A contribution to the mammals of the Mountain Pine Ridge; Hidden Valley Inn, Cayo District, Belize, Central America. Unpub. report for WCS. pp.7-8, 26 6 Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub. report for Wildlife Conservation Society. 7 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. 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.
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