Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Elegant myotis

  FAMILY -               Vespertilionidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Myotis elegans

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 6

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

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

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed)                           Permanent        4
  Rio Bravo Conservation Area           Captured or Mist net Dry season       5
  Gallon Jug                            Collected as voucher Permanent        7
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Mussel Creek                         4
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30'           4
  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10'           4
  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45'           5
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  5* La Milpa sites
  4* Belize City

  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. 1:200
  
  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. 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.
  
  5  Smith, Rosemary L. 1994.  Neotropical Bats as Indicators of
     Environmental Disturbance.  Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of
     Conservation and Ecology. pp.64.
  
  6  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.
  
  7  Miller, B. W.; M. J. O'Farrell. 1995.  Notes on bat distributions in
     Belize. In Prep.