Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Large-eared bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Micronycteris nicefori REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 7 - Comments on Status 4* restricted distribution District Reference Toledo 5 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Private land, see comments 6 Bladen Nature Reserve 5 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 5 General Distribution Comments 6* Aguacate 2* not shown for Belize 5* Quebrado de Oro 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. 1:101 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.54-55 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 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. 7 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.
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