Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Peter's false vampire bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Chrotopterus auritus auritus

  SYNONYMS -  Vampyrus auritus- Peters 1856

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 8

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat.          4
  

   - Comments on Status

  4* very widespread

  District                                                     Reference

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

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Slate Creek Preserve                                                        6
  Columbia River Forest Reserve                              Permanent        5
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area           Sighting             Dry season      10
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15'           5
  17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15'          10
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  10* Roosting in ruins
  5* Salamanca Camp

  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. 1:117
  
  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.60-61
  
  5  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.
  
  6  Meerman, J. C. 1994. Unpublished data, Slate Creek Preserve.
  
  7  Smith, Rosemary L. 1994.  Neotropical Bats as Indicators of
     Environmental Disturbance.  Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of
     Conservation and Ecology. pp.64.
  
  8  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.