Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Spix's round-eared bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Tonatia saurophila bakeri

  SYNONYMS - Tonatia bidens bidens-(Spix 1823)

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

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

  District                                                     Reference

  Toledo                                                               6
  Cayo                                                                 5
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve                                          6
  Columbia River Forest Reserve                                               6
  Nim Li Punit Archaeological Reserve                                         6
  Caracol Archaeological Reserve        Captured or Mist net Dry season       5
  Gallon Jug                            Captured or Mist net Dry season       7
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15'           5
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15'           7
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  6* Salamanca Camp
  2* not shown in 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. 1:108-109
  
  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.56
  
  5  Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub.
     report for Wildlife Conservation Society.
  
  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  Miller, C.M., B.W. Miller. 1994 (Nov.). Working Checklist: Mammals of
     Gallon Jug and Chan Chich Lodge Area. Unpublished list.
  
  8  Williams, S.L., M.R. Willig and F.A. Reid. 1995. Review of the Tonatia
     bidens complex (Mammalia: Chiroptera), with descriptions of two new
     subspecies. J. Mamm. 76(2):612-626.
  
  9  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.