Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Little yellow-eared bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Vampyressa pusilla thyone

  SYNONYMS - Vampyressa thyone- Thomas 1909

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 10

  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

  Columbia River Forest Reserve                                               7
  Private land, see comments                                                  7
  Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve                                          7
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area                                Permanent        6
  Bladen Nature Reserve                                                       5
  Gallon Jug                            Captured or Mist net Dry season       8
  Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve       Collected as voucher March            9
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15'           7
  16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45'           7
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           7
  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00'           7
  16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           7
  17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00'           5
  17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15'           8
  17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30'           9
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Subtropical moist                            9
  

  General Distribution Comments

  9* ROM Rockstone Pond
  7* Blancaneaux & Augustine; Banana Bank; Salamanca Camp
  2* specimen from Rockstone Pond, 30 mi. NW Belize
  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. 1:147-148
  
  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.73-74
  
  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  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.
  
  8  Miller, C.M., B.W. Miller. 1994 (Nov.). Working Checklist: Mammals of
     Gallon Jug and Chan Chich Lodge Area. Unpublished list.
  
  9  ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario
     Museum.
  
  10 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.