Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Spear-nosed bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Mimon bennettii cozumelae

  SYNONYMS - Mimon cozumelae- Goldman 1914 and Phyllostoma bennetii- Gray 1838

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities     4
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Belize                                                               2
  Cayo                                                                 2
  Corozal                                                              2
  Orange Walk                                                          2
  Stann Creek                                                          2
  Toledo                                                               2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Columbia River Forest Reserve                              Permanent        6
  Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve                                          6
  Private land, see comments                                                  6
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Sibun River                          6
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30'           6
  17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  6* Churchyard, Sibun River; Union Camp; Salamanca; Augustine; Barton Creek
     at West. Hwy.

  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. 1:112-113
  
  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.57-58.
  
  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  Ortega, J., H. T. Arita. 1997. Mimon bennettii. Mammalian Species
     No. 549. American Society of Mammalogists.
  
  8  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.