Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Striped spear-nosed bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Mimon crenulatum keenani REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 7 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 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 5 Private land, see comments 5 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 6 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 General Distribution Comments 6* Hillbank, 1 La Milpa. 5* Listowel, Baking Pot 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 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.57-58 5 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. 6 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 7 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.
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