Bats are amazing mammals belonging to the order Chiroptera, their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. In Belize they make up a whooping 58% of mammal species! Below is the species list of bats in Belize and their most accurate taxonomy classification.
Bat Species Found at T.R.E.E.S
| NAME | FAMILY | SPECIES |
| Least Sac-winged Bat | Emballonuridae | Balantiopteryx io |
| Thomas’ Bat | Emballonuridae | Centronycteris centralis |
| Greater Dog-like Bat | Emballonuridae | Peropteryx kappleri |
| Lesser Dog-like Bat | Emballonuridae | Peropteryx macrotis |
| Greater White-lined Bat | Emballonuridae | Saccopteryx bilineata |
| Lesser White-lined bat | Emballonuridae | Saccopteryx leptura |
| Sanborn’s Bonneted Bat | Molossidae | Eumops hansae |
| Underwood’s Bonneted Bat | Molossidae | Eumops underwoodi |
| Pallas’s mastiff bat | Molossidae | Molossus molossus |
| Black Mastiff Bat | Molossidae | Molossus nigricans |
| Big Crested Mastiff Bat | Molossidae | Promops centralis |
| Peter’s Ghost-faced Bat | Mormoopidae | Mormoops megalophylla |
| Tehuantepec Mustached Bat | Mormoopidae | Pteronotus psilotis |
| Tawny Naked-backed Bat | Mormoopidae | Pteronotus fulvus |
| Big Naked-backed Bat | Mormoopidae | Pteronotus gymnonotus |
| Mesoamerican mustached bat | Mormoopidae | Pteronotus mesoamericanus |
| Mexican Greater Funnel-eared Bat | Natalidae | Natalus mexicanus |
| Greater Bulldog Bat | Noctilionidae | Noctilio leporinus |
| Intermediate Fruit-eating bat | Phyllostomidae | Artibeus intermedius |
| Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat | Phyllostomidae | Artibeus jamaicensis |
| Great Fruit-eating bat | Phyllostomidae | Artibeus lituratus |
| Thomas’s Fruit-eating Bat | Phyllostomidae | Artibeys watsoni |
| Seba’s Short-tailed Bat | Phyllostomidae | Carollia perspicillata |
| Sowell’s Short-tailed Bat | Phyllostomidae | Carollia sowelli |
| Wrinkle-faced bat | Phyllostomidae | Centurio senex |
| Hairy Big-eyed Bat | Phyllostomidae | Chiroderma villosum |
| Woolly False Vampire Bat | Phyllostomidae | Chrotopterus auritus |
| Common Vampire Bat | Phyllostomidae | Desmodus rotundus |
| Brown Long-tongued Bat | Phyllostomidae | Glossophaga commissarisi |
| Common Long-tongued Bat | Phyllostomidae | Glossophaga soricina |
| Underwood’s Long-tongued Bat | Phyllostomidae | Hylonycteris underwoodi |
| Orange-throated Bat | Phyllostomidae | Lampronycteris brachyotis |
| Pygmy round-eared bat | Phyllostomidae | Lophostoma brasiliense |
| Common Big-eared Bat | Phyllostomidae | Micronycteris microtis |
| Schmidt’s Big-eared Bat | Phyllostomidae | Micronycteris schmidtorum |
| Cozumelan Golden Bat | Phyllostomidae | Mimon cozumelae |
| Pale Spear-nosed bat | Phyllostomidae | Phyllostomus discolor |
| Heller’s Broad-nosed Bat | Phyllostomidae | Platyrrhinus helleri |
| Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat | Phyllostomidae | Sturnira parvidens |
| Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat | Phyllostomidae | Tonatia saurophila |
| Fringe-lipped Bat | Phyllostomidae | Trachops cirrhosus |
| Common Tent-making Bat | Phyllostomidae | Uroderma bilobatum |
| Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat | Phyllostomidae | Vampyressa thyone |
| Caracciolo’s Stripe-faced Bat | Phyllostomidae | Vampyrodes caraccioli |
| Spectral Bat | Phyllostomidae | Vampyrum spectrum |
| Spix’s Disk-winged Bat | Thyropteridae | Thyroptera tricolor |
| Van Gelder’s bat | Vespertilionidae | Bauerus dubiaquercus |
| Argentine brown bat | Vespertilionidae | Eptesicus furinalis |
| Red Bat | Vespertilionidae | Lasiurus blossevillii |
| Southern Yellow Bat | Vespertilionidae | Lasiurus ega |
| Northern yellow bat | Vespertilionidae | Lasiurus intermedius |
| Elegant myotis | Vespertilionidae | Myotis elegans |
| Black myotis | Vespertilionidae | Myotis nigricans |
| Yucatan Yellow Bat | Vespertilionidae | Rhogeessa aeneus |
| Black-winged Little Yellow Bat | Vespertilionidae | Rhogeessa tumida |
Bat Species Found Elsewhere in Belize
| NAME | FAMILY | SPECIES |
| Proboscis Bat | Emballonuridae | Rhynchonycteris naso |
| LaVal’s Hairy-legged Myotis | Vespertilionidae | Myotis pilosatibialis |
| Niceforo’s Bat | Phyllostomidae | Trinycteris nicefori |
| Greater Spear-nosed Bat | Phyllostomidae | Phyllostomus hastatus |
| Pale-faced Bat | Phyllostomidae | Phylloderma stenops |
| Long-legged bat | Phyllostomidae | Macrophyllum macrophyllum |
| Common Sword-nosed Bat | Phyllostomidae | Lonchorhina aurita |
| Dark Long-tounged Bat | Phyllostomidae | Lichonycteris obscura |
| Keenan’s Hairy-nosed Bat | Phyllostomidae | Gardnerycteris keenani |
| Hairy-legged vampire bat | Phyllostomidae | Diphylla ecaudata |
| Alvarez’s Mastiff bat | Molossidae | Molossus alvarezi |
| Godman’s bat | Phyllostomidae | Choeroniscus godmani |
| Broad-eared Free-tailed Bat | Molossidae | Nyctinomops laticaudatus |
| Northern Ghost Bat | Emballonuridae | Diclidurus albus |
