Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Linnaeus' false vampire bat

  FAMILY -               Phyllostomidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Vampyrum spectrum

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 9

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities     4
  

   - Comments on Status

  4* widespread

  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            Captured or Mist net APRIL            8
  Caracol Archaeological Reserve        Captured or Mist net Dry season       7
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area                                Permanent        6
  Bladen Nature Reserve                                                       5
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

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

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  8* Santa Elena, Toledo
  5* Quebrado de Oro Basin & Santa Elena, Toledo

  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. 1:118
  
  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.61
  
  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  Anonymous. 1994. Rio Bravo Mammal Update.  Unpublished list. pp.1-2
  
  7  Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub.
     report for Wildlife Conservation Society.
  
  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  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.