Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Brown long-nosed bat

  FAMILY -               Molossidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Lichonycteris obscura

  SYNONYMS -  Lichonycteris degner Miller 1931

  REFERENCES - 2 and 5

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Toledo                                                               3
  

  

                                                                               
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  

                                                
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  1* Hall doesn't show for Belize
  3* McCarthy says "southern Belize"

  References

  1  Hall, E. R. 1981. Mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley &
     Sons. New York. 1:134
  
  2  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.
  
  3  McCarthy, T. J., W. B. Davis, J. E. Hill, J. K. Jones Jr., G. A. Cruz.
     1993.  Bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) Records, Early Collectors, and Faunal
     Lists for Northern Central America.  Annals of Carnegie Museum. Vol. 62,
     No. 3, pp. 191-228
  
  4  McCarthy, T. J. 1993. Checklist: Mammals of Belize. BAS Newsletter
     25 (2-3).
  
  5  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.