Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Black mastiff bat

  FAMILY -               Molossidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Molossus ater nigricans

  SYNONYMS -  Molossops malagai*3 and  Molossus rufus *3

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 7

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Cayo                                                                 6
  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 Dry season       6
  Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve                         Permanent        4
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Mussel Creek                         5
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           6
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           4
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  6* UMMZ Murie 1931 collection.
  5* shown as Molossops malagai

  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. 1:252-253
  
  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., W. B. Davis, J. E. Hill, J. K. Jones Jr., G. A. Cruz.
     1993.  Bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) Records, Early Collectors, and Faunal
     Lists for Northern Central America.  Annals of Carnegie Museum. Vol. 62,
     No. 3, pp. 191-228
  
  5  Weyer, D. 1994. Proposal to Establish the Mussel Creek Drainage as a
     Wildlife Sanctuary. p.18
  
  6  Murie, Adolph. 1935. Mammals from Guatemala and British Honduras.
     University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Misc. Pub. 26.
  
  7  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
     W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.