Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Broad-tailed bat

  FAMILY -               Molossidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Nyctinomops laticaudata yucatanica

  SYNONYMS - Tadarida laticauda and Nyctinomops espiritosantensis Ruschi 1951

  REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 7

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat.          4
  

  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 Dry season       5
  Private land, see comments            Collected as voucher August           6
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           5
  17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           2
  18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45'           6
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Subtropical moist                            6
  

  General Distribution Comments

  6* LSU San Antonio, OW District
  5* El Cayo (now San Ignacio)
  2* specimen from El Cayo

  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. 1:244-245
  
  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
  
  5  Murie, Adolph. 1935. Mammals from Guatemala and British Honduras.
     University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Misc. Pub. 26.
  
  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.