Belize Biodiversity Information System

Taxonomy

Species ID	050960
Name	Dwarf mastiff bat
Other Common Names
Category	05 Mammals
Phylum
Subphylum
Class	Mammalia
Subclass	Theria
Suborder	Microchiroptera
Family	Molossidae
Genus	Eumops
Species	bonariensis
Subspecies
References	1, 2, 3, 7, 8
Scientific Synonyms	8* Promops nanus Miller, 1900:470, 8* Eumops nanus Miller, 1906:85, 8* Eumops bonariensis nanus Sanborn, 1932:356

Comments

7* Four subspecies. E.b. nanus (Mexico to the Guianas and northwestern Peru), E.b. delticus (Amazon basin), E.b. beckeri (Bolivia to northern Argentina), E.b. bonariensis (southern Brazil to east-central Argentina).

Status

Status Code	Status Translation	References
27	Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities.	4

Comments on Status

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

Distribution

DISTRICT	References
Belize	2
Cayo	2
Corozal	2
Orange Walk	9
Stann Creek	2
Toledo	2

Administrative Unit	Occurrence	Abundance	Temporal	References
Private land, see comments	Collected as voucher.	Unknown, insuffient data	Permanent Resident (Year-round)	5
Rio Bravo Conservation Area	Captured or Mist netted and released	Unknown, insuffient data	Dry season (Jan-May)	6

ELEVATION Association	References
1-200 m	9

QUAD Distribution	References
18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45'	9ü5
17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'	6

Holdridge Life Zone Distribution	References
Subtropical moist	9

Comments on Distribution

6* nb. injured on foliage.
5* Orange Walk Town

Graphics

Distribution map

Habitat Associations

Forest Type Associations	Seral Stage	Canopy Closure	References
Agriculture, no native vegetation.	not applicable	not applicable	9

  

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. 1:251

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  Smith, Rosemary L. 1994.  Neotropical Bats as Indicators of
   Environmental Disturbance.  Masters Thesis. Durrell Institute of
   Conservation and Ecology. pp.64.

7  Koopman, Karl F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics (in) Handbook of Zoology.
   W. de Gruyter. Berlin-NY. p.46.

8  Eger, J.L. 1977. Systematics of the Genus Eumops (Chiroptera:
   Molossidae). Life Sciences Contributions, Roayal Ontarion Musuem.
   110:1-69.

9  CM. 1997. Carnegie Musuem, Division of mammals. Data imported on
   date: 06/13/00.