Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Davis' round-eared bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Tonatia evotis

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 7

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

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

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Bladen Nature Reserve                                      Permanent        5
  Columbia River Forest Reserve                                               4
  Private land, see comments            Captured or Mist net Dry season       6
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Macal River                          6
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00'           5
  16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15'           4
  17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  6* Chaa Creek Cottages, shown as T. silvicola but now T. evotis per *3
  2* Freetown, Sittee River
  4* Cayo - Central Farm, Baking Pot. Toledo - vicinity Aguacate; 1.2 km E
     Aguacate; 0.8 km NW Blue Creek; Crique Negro, Columbia Forest;
     Hot Springs, 1.2 km SW Big Falls bridge, Rio Grande; Orange Point;
     1.6 km NNE Salamanca Camp, Columbia Forest; 2.1 km NNE Salamanca Camp,
     Columbia Forest.
  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. 1:110
  
  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  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
  
  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  Merriman, T. 1993. List of bats caught and observed with Dr. Merlin D.
     Tuttle, BCI Founder's Circle Trip, May 8-17, 1993.  In lit.
  
  7  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.