Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Heller's broad-nosed bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Platyrrhinus helleri SYNONYMS - Vampyrops helleri- Peters 1866 and Vampyrops zarhinus- H. Allen 1891 REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 10 District Reference Belize 2 Cayo 2 Orange Walk 2 Stann Creek 2 Toledo 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Columbia River Forest Reserve 8 Private land, see comments 8 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Captured or Mist net Dry season 6 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Permanent 5 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 4 Chiquibul National Park Wet season 7 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Captured or Mist net Dry season 9 Hydrologic Association Reference New River 9 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 16 30' to 16 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 8 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 8 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 4 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 General Distribution Comments 9* Hillbank 8* Banana Bank; Macaw Bank; Salamanca Camp 7* Puente Natural 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. 1:144-145 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 Jacobson, S. 1990. Wildlife Inventory of the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area. Parts I and II. Appendix 2. 5 Clark, W. 1993. A contribution to the mammals of the Mountain Pine Ridge; Hidden Valley Inn, Cayo District, Belize, Central America. Unpub. report for WCS. pp.7-8, 26 6 Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub. report for Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 Unpublished report. 8 McCarthy, T. J. 1987.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 Smith, Rosemary L. 1994. Neotropical Bats as Indicators of Environmental Disturbance. Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. pp.64. 10 Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology. W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.
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