Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Pallas' long-tongued bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Glossophaga soricina handleyi REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 11 and 17 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 10 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 8 Columbia River Forest Reserve 7 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 6 Bladen Nature Reserve 5 Shipstern Nature Reserve Captured or Mist net Dry season 12 Town or Village, see comments. Collected as voucher July 13 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher September 14 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher August 14 Government land Collected as voucher November 15 Government land Collected as voucher February 15 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Collected as voucher February 15 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher September 15 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher Dry season 15 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 16 Hydrologic Association Reference Mussel Creek 9 New River 16 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 6 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 12 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 14 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 14 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 15 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 15 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 15 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 15 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 16 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 15 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 15 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 15 Subtropical moist 15 Subtropical moist 15 Subtropical moist 14 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 14 Subtropical moist 12 General Distribution Comments 16* Hillbank; La Milpa. 15* Rockstone Pond; Regalia; Augustine; Central Farm. 14* 0.75mi. E. of Corozal; Regalia. 13* U. of Kansas MNH, 1 male, 13 July, 1980. Unruh collection. 5* Quebrado de Oro 7* 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. 1:119-120 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.62-63 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 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 7 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 8 Jacobson, S. 1990. Wildlife Inventory of the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area. Parts I and II. Appendix 2. 9 Weyer, D. 1994. Proposal to Establish the Mussel Creek Drainage as a Wildlife Sanctuary. p.18 10 Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub. report for Wildlife Conservation Society. 11 Alverez, J., M. R. Willig, J. K. Jones and W. D. Webster. 1991. Glossophaga soricina. Mammalian Species No. 379, pp. 1-7. The American Society of Mammalogists. 12 Quigley, H. B., B. W. Miller, C. M. Miller. 1995. Mammal Survey, Shipstern Nature Reserve, April 4-13, 1995. Unpublished report for ITCF. 13 University of Kansas Natural History Museum. 1995. Belize Mammal holdings. Unpublished listing of catalog. 14 LSU Museum of Natural Science, Belize collection. August 31, 1995. Curator: Mark S. Hafner. 15 ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario Museum. 16 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 17 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.
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