Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Wrinkle-faced bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Centurio senex senex SYNONYMS - Centurio minor- Ward 1891, Centurio mcmurtii- H. Allen 1861, Centurio mexicanus- Saussure 1860 and Centurio flavogularis- Lichtenstein and Peters 1854 REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 13 and 15 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 4 - Comments on Status 4* widespread with wide habitat range District Reference Belize 2 Cayo 2 Corozal 2 Orange Walk 2 Stann Creek 2 Toledo 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Bladen Nature Reserve Collected as voucher January 14 Xunantunich Archaeological Reserve 9 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 9 Ambergris Cay 9 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Captured or Mist net Dry season 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 7 Columbia River Forest Reserve 6 Bladen Nature Reserve 5 Gallon Jug Captured or Mist net Dry season 10 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher August 11 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 12 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 14 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 17 52'35" to 18 11'30"; 87 49' to 88 03' 9 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 9 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 9 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 9 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 11 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 12 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 11 General Distribution Comments 12* La Milpa. 11* LSU 0.75mi. E Corozal. 9* S. San Pedro; Rio Frio; Central Farm; Teakettle; San Antonio OW; Union Camp; 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. 1:167-168 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. pp.78-79 5 McCarthy, T. J., M. Blake. 1987. Noteworthy bat records from the Maya Mountains Forest Reserve, Belize. Mammalia v. 51, No. 1, pp.161-164 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 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. 10 Miller, C.M., B.W. Miller. 1994 (Nov.). Working Checklist: Mammals of Gallon Jug and Chan Chich Lodge Area. Unpublished list. 11 LSU Museum of Natural Science, Belize collection. August 31, 1995. Curator: Mark S. Hafner. 12 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 13 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46. 14 AMNH. 1996. Bat holdings provided by Nancy Simmons, unpublished listing of catalog. 15 Snow, J.L., J. Knox Jones and W.D. Webster. 1980. Centurio senex. Mammalian Species. No.138. pp.1-3. American Society of Mammalogists.
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