Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Underwood's mastiff bat

  FAMILY -               Molossidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Eumops underwoodi underwoodi

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 7

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Middle America endemic                                     1
  Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places     4
  

   - Comments on Status

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

  District                                                     Reference

  Corozal                                                              5
  Toledo                                                               5
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Bladen Nature Reserve                                      Permanent        5
  Private land, see comments            Collected as voucher August           6
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

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

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Subtropical moist                            6
  

  General Distribution Comments

  6* LSU 3mi. W Corozal
  2* not shown in Belize
  5* Quebrado de Oro

  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. 1:249
  
  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., M. Blake. 1987.  Noteworthy bat records from the Maya
     Mountains Forest Reserve, Belize.  Mammalia v. 51, No. 1, pp.161-164
  
  6  LSU Museum of Natural Science, Belize collection. August 31, 1995.
     Curator: Mark S. Hafner.
  
  7  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.