Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Macrotus waterhousii mexicanus

  SYNONYMS -  Macrotus mexicanus- Saussure 1860 and  Mactorus bocourtianus- Dobson 1876

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 4

  

                                                              
  

  

                                                                        
  

  

                                                                               
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  

                                                
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  2* not shown for Belize

  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. 1:104
  
  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  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.