Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Tent-making bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Uroderma bilobatum molaris REFERENCES - 2, 13, 14 and 32 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places 8 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 10 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve 10 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Unknown Dry season 9 Shipstern Nature Reserve Permanent 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 6 Bladen Nature Reserve 5 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher August 11 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher Dry season 12 Hydrologic Association Reference Cox's Lagoon 9 Mussel Creek 7 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 10 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 8 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 11 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 12 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 11 General Distribution Comments 12* ROM Rockstone. 11* LSU Regalia 10* Regalia, Stann Creek Dist. (1 male LSU collection). 2* Rockstone Pond 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. 1:143-144 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. pp. 70-71 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 Jacobson, S. 1990. Wildlife Inventory of the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area. Parts I and II. Appendix 2. 7 Weyer, D. 1994. Proposal to Establish the Mussel Creek Drainage as a Wildlife Sanctuary. p.18 8 Meerman, J. C. 1993. Mammals of the Shipstern Nature Reserve. Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2:11, pp.83-85 9 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.3-4 10 Davis, W. B. 1968. Review of the genus Uroderma. Journal of Mammalogy.(49)4:676-698. 11 LSU Museum of Natural Science, Belize collection. August 31, 1995. Curator: Mark S. Hafner. 12 ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario Museum. 13 Baker, R.B., C.L. Clark. 1987, Uroderma bilobatum. Mammalian Species No. 279. pp. 1-4. 14 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.
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