Annotated checklist of mammals of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. I, Chiroptera

Abstract

The Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, comprising the states of Cam peche and Yucatan, and the Federal Territory of Quintana Roo, is a low-lying plain or tableland, which rises gently in elevation inland from north to south. Bordered on three sides by water, the Gulf of Campeche to the west, the Gulf of Mexico to the north, and the Carib bean Sea proper to the east, the peninsula, geographically defined, actually occupies an area of approximately 143,500 square kilometers, including parts of British Honduras and northern Peten, Guatemala.