Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Red bat

  FAMILY -               Vespertilionidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Lasiurus blossevillii frantzii

  SYNONYMS - Lasiurus borealis frantzii

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

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

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Rio Bravo Conservation Area                                Permanent        5
  Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary                                          4
  Gallon Jug                            Collected as voucher June             9
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

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

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  5* 1 caught on fence.

  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. 1:222
  
  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  Rabinowitz, A.; B. G. Nottingham, Jr. 1989. Mammal species richness and
     relative abundance of small mammals in a subtropical wet forest of
     Central America.  Mammalia V. 53, No. 2, pp.217-226
  
  5  Jacobson, S. 1990. Wildlife Inventory of the Rio Bravo Conservation and
     Management Area. Parts I and II. Appendix 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  Morales, J. C. and J. W. Brickham. 1995.  Molecular systematics of the
     genus Lasiurus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) based on restriction-site
     maps of mitochondrial ribosomal genes.  J. Mammalogy. 76:730-749.
  
  8  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics in Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin. p.129.
  
  9  Miller, B.W. 1997. Unpublished data.