Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Hairy-legged myotis

  FAMILY -               Vespertilionidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Myotis keaysi pilosotibialis

  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

  Town or Village, see comments.        Collected as voucher APRIL            5
  Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve    Collected as voucher May              5
  Caracol Archaeological Reserve        Captured or Mist net Dry season       4
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           5
  16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15'           5
  16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15'           4
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  5* Guacamallo, vicinity of Cueva de Rio Frio,
  2* specimen from Augustine ca. 400m

  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. 1:201
  
  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  Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub.
     report for Wildlife Conservation Society.
  
  5  University of Kansas Natural History Museum. 1995.  Belize Mammal
     holdings.  Unpublished listing of catalog.
  
  6  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.