Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Shaw's mastiff bat

  FAMILY -               Molossidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Eumops auripendulus auripendulus

  SYNONYMS - 3* abrasus

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 7

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities     4
  

   - Comments on Status

  4* high roosting and flying may make them hard to detect

  District                                                     Reference

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

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve       Collected as voucher March            6
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30'           2
  18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45'           5
  17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30'           6
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Subtropical moist                            6
  

  General Distribution Comments

  6* ROM Rockstone Pond
  5* Tower Hill, B.S.I.
  2* specimen from Rockstone Pond

  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. 1:248
  
  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.91-92
  
  5  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.
  
  6  ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario
     Museum.
  
  7  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.