Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Fringe-lipped bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Trachops cirrhosus coffini SYNONYMS - Trachops coffini- Goldman 1925 REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 11 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places 4 District Reference Belize 2 Cayo 2 Corozal 2 Orange Walk 2 Stann Creek 2 Toledo 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Private land, see comments 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 6 Columbia River Forest Reserve 5 Chiquibul National Park Wet season 7 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher March 9 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 10 Hydrologic Association Reference Chiquibul River 7 New River 10 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 30' to 16 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 8 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10' 8 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 9 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 10 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 9 General Distribution Comments 10* Hillbank; La Milpa. 9* Rockstone Pond. 8* Salamanca Camp; OW Town; record from Rockstone Pond & Belize City 7* Puente Natural 2* specimen from Belize: Belize 5* voucher specimen taken 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. 1:115-116 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.60 5 Parker, T. A. III, B. K. Holst, L. H. Emmons, J. R. Meyer. 1993. A Biological Assessment of the Columbia River Forest Reserve, Toledo District, Belize. pp.23-25, p. 80 6 Jacobson, S. 1990. Wildlife Inventory of the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area. Parts I and II. Appendix 2. 7 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1992. Biodiversity Reconnaissance in Chiquibul National Park, 13-19 July. Unpublished report. 8 McCarthy, T. J. 1987.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. 9 ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario Museum. 10 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 11 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.
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