''Sturnira bakeri'' is a species of bat found in

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Taxonomy

''Sturnira bakeri'' was described as a new species in 2014. Its description was the result of molecular and morphological new analyses. The

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had been collected in El Oro, which is in western

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. The

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for the

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"''bakeri''" is the scientist Robert James Baker, for his significant contribution "to the evolution of Neotropical phyllostomids".

Range and habitat

So far, this species was recorded in three countries of South-America :

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and Colombia.Montoya-Bustamante, S., Zapata-Mesa, N., González-Chávez, B., & Obando-Cabrera, L. 2017

References

Literature cited

* Montoya-Bustamante, S., Zapata-Mesa, N., González-Chávez, B., & Obando-Cabrera, L. 2017. First records of Sturnira bakeri Velazco & Patterson, 2014 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Colombia. Check List, 13, 1. * Sánchez, P., & Pacheco, V. 2016
New record of Sturnira bakeri Velazco & Patterson, 2014 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from northwestern Peru.
Check List, 12(5), 1984. * Velazco, P. M., & Patterson, B. D. 2014
Two new species of yellow-shouldered bats, genus Sturnira Gray, 1842 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Costa Rica, Panama and western Ecuador
ZooKeys, (402), 43. Mammals described in 2014 Sturnira Bats of South America {{Leafnosed-bat-stub