Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Argentine brown bat

  FAMILY -               Vespertilionidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Eptesicus furinalis gaumeri

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 8

  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

  Government land                                                             6
  Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve                                          6
  Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve                                             6
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area                                                 5
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area           Captured or Mist net Dry season       7
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15'           5
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10'           6
  17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30'           6
  18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45'           6
  18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30'           6
  17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30'           6
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 00' to 88 10'           6
  16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00'           6
  17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           7
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  7* La Milpa
  6* Little Vaquero Creek; Augustine; Honey Camp Lagoon; Estero Lagoon;
     Central Farm.

  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. 1:217-218
  
  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.85
  
  5  Anonymous. 1994. Rio Bravo Mammal Update.  Unpublished list. pp.1-2
  
  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  Smith, Rosemary L. 1994.  Neotropical Bats as Indicators of
     Environmental Disturbance.  Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of
     Conservation and Ecology. pp.64.
  
  8  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.