Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Commissaris' long-tongued bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Glossophaga commissarisi commissarisi

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places     4
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Belize                                                               5
  Stann Creek                                                          2
  Toledo                                                               2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve       Collected as voucher Dry season       7
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area           Captured or Mist net Dry season       8
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  New River                            8
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30'           5
  16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           5
  16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45'           5
  16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00'           5
  17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30'           7
  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45'           8
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Subtropical moist                            7
  

  General Distribution Comments

  8* Hillbank.
  7* Rockstone Pond.
  5* Rockstone Pond; Aguacate; Big Fall.

  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. 1:121-122
  
  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.62-63
  
  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  Webster, W. D. and J. K. Jones. 1993. Glossophaga commissarisi.
     Mammalian Species No. 446, pp. 1-4.  The American Society of Mammalogist
  
  7  ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario
     Museum.
  
  8  Smith, Rosemary L. 1994.  Neotropical Bats as Indicators of
     Environmental Disturbance.  Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of
     Conservation and Ecology. pp.64.
  
  9  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.