Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Southern yellow bat

  FAMILY -               Vespertilionidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Lasiurus ega xanthinus

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 9

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat.          4
  

   - Comments on Status

  4* widespread

  District                                                     Reference

  Orange Walk                                                          7
  Belize                                                               2
  Cayo                                                                 2
  Corozal                                                              2
  Orange Walk                                                          2
  Stann Creek                                                          2
  Toledo                                                               2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Gallon Jug                            Captured or Mist net                  7
  Private land, see comments                                                  6
  Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary                         Permanent        5
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

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

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  7* Voucher collected at Gallon Jug, vocal recordings made.
  6* Tropical Park; BSI Tower Hill;

  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. 1:221
  
  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.87
  
  5  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
  
  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  Miller, B. W.; M. J. O'Farrell. 1995.  Notes on bat distributions in
     Belize. In Prep.
  
  8  Kurta, Allen; G.C. Lehr. 1995.  Lasiurus ega.  Mammalian Species
     No. 515, pp. 1-7. American Society of Mammalogists.
  
  9  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.