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 -      Phyllostomus hastatus panamensis

  SYNONYMS - Phyllostomus hastatus caurae- J.A. Allen 1904

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 6

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places     4
  

   - Comments on Status

  4* locally common and widespread in rainforest

  District                                                     Reference

  Toledo                                                               5
  

  

                                                                               
  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  2* not shown in Belize
  5* Toledo: nr. Blue Creek

  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. 1:113
  
  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.
     p.59
  
  5  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.
  
  6  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.