Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Silky short-tailed bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Carollia brevicauda SYNONYMS - Phyllostoma bernicaudum- Schinz 1821, Phyllostoma Grayi [sic]- Waterhouse 1838, Phyllostoma bicolor- Wagner 1840, Phyllostoma lanceolatum- Gray 1843 and Rhinops minor- Gray 1866 REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 14 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 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Captured or Mist net Dry season 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 7 Columbia River Forest Reserve 6 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 5 Gallon Jug Captured or Mist net Dry season 9 Private land, see comments Captured or Mist net Dry season 10 Gallon Jug Collected as voucher March 11 Chiquibul National Park Collected as voucher March 11 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher August 11 Government land Collected as voucher February 12 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Collected as voucher February 12 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher Dry season 12 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 13 Hydrologic Association Reference Macal River 10 New River 13 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 11 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 11 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 11 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 12 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 12 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 13 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 12 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 12 Subtropical moist 12 Subtropical moist 11 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 11 Subtropical moist 11 General Distribution Comments 13* 46 netted Hillbank sites; 58 La Milpa. 12* Rockstone Pond; Augustine; Central Farm. 11* 0.75mi. E Corozal; Augustine, 12.6 mi. south. 10* Chaa Creek Cottages 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. 1:136-137 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.67-68 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 Jacobson, S. 1990. Wildlife Inventory of the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area. Parts I and II. Appendix 2. 8 Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub. report for Wildlife Conservation Society. 9 Miller, C.M., B.W. Miller. 1994 (Nov.). Working Checklist: Mammals of Gallon Jug and Chan Chich Lodge Area. Unpublished list. 10 Merriman, T. 1993. List of bats caught and observed with Dr. Merlin D. Tuttle, BCI Founder's Circle Trip, May 8-17, 1993. In lit. 11 LSU Museum of Natural Science, Belize collection. August 31, 1995. Curator: Mark S. Hafner. 12 ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario Museum. 13 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 14 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.
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