Cozumelan golden bat

The Cozumelan golden bat (Mimon cozumelae) is a bat found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. The American zoologist Edward Alphonso Goldman described it in 1914 from a holotype collected on Cozumel by G. F. Gaumer, and at times it has been treated as a subspecies of the golden bat, Mimon bennettii. Its forearm is 53.1 to 59 millimetres long and it weighs about 35 grams. It is a lowland species of mature evergreen, semi-deciduous and dry forest, recorded from sea level to about 600 metres. It roosts in small groups by day, mostly in limestone caves and sometimes in hollow logs, and hunts at night, possibly picking prey from foliage. Its diet includes beetles, katydids, birds and lizards. Breeding begins with the rainy season and females bear a single young. Little else is known of its biology, but with a wide range, a steady population and no known threats the IUCN rates it least concern.