Sturnira | |
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Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira tildae) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Phyllostomidae |
Subfamily: | Stenodermatinae |
Genus: |
Sturnira Gray, 1842 |
Type species | |
Sturnira spectrum
[1] Gray, 1842
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Species | |
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Sturnira known as a yellow-shouldered bat or American epauleted bat, is a genus of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. The genus name comes from the Latin for " starling" and refers to HMS Starling, which took part in an 1836 voyage to Brazil during which the type specimen was collected. [2] It contains the following species:
Velazco, P.M. & B.D. Patterson. 2019. Small mammals of the Mayo River basin in northern Peru, with the description of a new species of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 429:1-70.