Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Van Gelder's bat

  FAMILY -               Vespertilionidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Bauerus dubiaquercus meyeri

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 7 and 9

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Belize                                                               2
  Cayo                                                                 2
  Corozal                                                              2
  Orange Walk                                                          2
  Stann Creek                                                          2
  Toledo                                                               2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Caracol Archaeological Reserve        Captured or Mist net Dry season       5
  Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve                         Permanent        4
  Columbia River Forest Reserve                                               4
  Bladen Nature Reserve                                                       4
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15'           5
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45'           4
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  4* 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. 1:238
  
  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  McCarthy, T. J., M. Blake. 1987.  Noteworthy bat records from the Maya
     Mountains Forest Reserve, Belize.  Mammalia v. 51, No. 1, pp.161-164
  
  5  Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub.
     report for Wildlife Conservation Society.
  
  6  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.
  
  7  Engstrom, M. D., D. E. Wilson. 1981.  Systematics of Antrozous
     dubiaquercus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with comments on the status
     of Bauerus van Gelder.  Annals of Carnegie Museum. 50(15):371-383.
  
  8  Engstrom, M. D., T. E. Lee, and D. E. Wilson. 1987. Bauerus
     dubiaquercus.  Mammalian Species No. 282:1-3.
  
  9  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.