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 here!
Bat Species Recorded on T.R.E.E.S Property
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| Intermediate Fruit-eating Bat | Artibeus intermedius koopmani |
| Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat | Artibeus jamaicensis |
| Great Fruit-eating Bat | Artibeus lituratus |
| Pygmy Fruit-eating Bat | Artibeus phaeotis |
| Wrinkle-faced Bat | Centurio senex |
| Hairy Big-eyed Bat | Chiroderma villosum |
| Toltec Fruit-eating Bat | Artibeus toltecus |
| Thomas’ Fruit-eating Bat | Artibeus (Dermanura) watsoni |
| Pygmy Fruit-eating Bat | Artibeus (Dermanura) phaeotis |
| Heller’s Broad-nosed Bat | Platyrrhinus helleri |
| Common Tent-making Bat | Uroderma bilobatum |
| Great Stripe-faced Bat | Vampyrodes caraccioli |
| Little Yellow-shouldered Bat | Sturnira lilium |
| Seba’s Short-tailed Bat | Carollia perspicillata |
| Sowells Short-tailed Bat | Carollia sowelli |
| Common Vampire Bat | Desmodus rotundus |
| Common Long-tongued Bat | Glossophaga soricina |
| Underwood’s Long-tongued Bat | Hylonycteris underwoodi |
| Brown Long-tongued Bat/ Commissaris’s Long-tongued Bat | Glossophaga commissarisi |
| Pygmy Round-eared Bat | Lophostoma brasiliense |
| Golden Bat | Mimon bennettii |
| Pale Spear-nosed Bat | Phyllostomus discolor |
| Fringe Lipped Bat | Trachops cirrhosis |
| Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat | Tonatia saurophila |
| Common Big-eared Bat | Micronycteris microtis |
| Orange-throated Bat | Lampronycteris brachyotis |
| Mexican Dog Faced Bat | Cynomops mexicanus |
| Wagner’s Bonneted Bat | Eumops glaucinus |
| Black Mastiff Bat | Molossus rufus |
| Sinaloan Mastiff Bat | Molossus sinaloae |
| Big Crested Mastiff Bat | Promops centralis |
| Davy’s Naked-backed Bat | Pteronotus davyi |
| Common Mustached bat | Pteronotus parnellii |
| Ghost- faced Bat | Mormoops megalophylla |
| Northern Ghost Bat | Diclidurus albus |
| Argentine Brown Bat | Eptesicus furinalis |
| Elegant Myotis | Myotis elegans |
| Yucutan Yellow Bat | Rhogeessa aeneus |
| Van Gelder’s Bat | Bauerus dubiaquercus |
| Black Myotis | Myotis nigricans |
| Greater White-lined Bat | Saccopteryx bilineata |
| Greater Fishing Bat | Noctilio leporinus |
| Lesser Doglike Bat | Cynopterus brachyotis |
| Spix’s Disk-winged Bat | Thyroptera tricolor |
Additional Bat Species found in Belize
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| Yellow-throated big-eared Bat | Lampronycteris brachyotis |
| Tomes’s sword-nosed Bat | Lonchorhina aurita |
| Davis’s Round-eared Bat | Lophostoma evotis |
| Long-legged Bat | Macrophyllum macrophyllum |
| Schmidt’s Big-eared Bat | Micronycteris schmidtorum |
| Striped Hairy-nosed Bat | Gardnerycteris crenulatu |
| Pale-faced Bat | Phylloderma stenops |
| Greater Spear-nosed Bat | Phyllostomus hastatus |
| Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat | Tonatia saurophila |
| Fringe-lipped Bat | Trachops cirrhosus |
| Niceforo’s big-eared bat | Trinycteris nicefori |
| Hairy-legged Myotis | Myotis keaysi |
| Western Red Bat | Lasiurus blossevillii |
| Southern Yellow Bat | Lasiurus ega |
| Northern Yellow Bat | Lasiurus intermedius |
| Underwood’s Bonneted Bat | Eumops underwoodi |
| Pallas’s mastiff Bat | Molossus molossus |
| Alvarez’s Mastiff Bat | Molossus alvarezi |
| Broad-eared Free-tailed Bat | Nyctinomops laticaudatus |
| Lesser Dog-like Bat | Peropteryx macrotis |
| Greater Dog-like Bat | Peropteryx kappleri |
| Proboscis Bat | Rhynchonycteris naso |
| Lesser Sac-winged Bat | Saccopteryx leptura |
| Big Naked-backed Bat | Pteronotus gymnonotus |
| Wagner’s Mustached Bat | Pteronotus personatus |
| Dark Long-tongued Bat | Lichonycteris obscura |
| Little Yellow-eared Bat | Vampyressa pusilla |
| Hairy-legged Vampire Bat | Diphylla ecaudata |
| Thomas’s shaggy Bat | Centronycteris |
| Woolly False Vampire bat | Chrotopterus auritus |
| Black-winged Little Yellow Bat | Rhogeessa tumida |