The bidentate yellow-shouldered bat (''Sturnira bidens'') is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in South America.

Taxonomy and etymology

It was described as a new species in 1915 by British zoologist

Oldfield Thomas Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist. Career Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and subspecies for the first time. He was appoin ...

. The holotype had been collected by Walter Goodfellow in April 1914 in Baeza, Ecuador. Thomas described a new, now-defunct genus, ''Corvira'', giving the species the binomial of ''Corvira bidens''. The species name "''bidens''" is Latin for "two teeth;" of the bidentate yellow bat, Thomas wrote, "lower incisors only two."

Description

It has a forearm length of . It has a long and narrow

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and an overall narrow skull. It has a dental formula of for a total of 30 teeth.

Range and habitat

Its range includes Peru, Ecuador,

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, and Venezuela. It is found in association with the Andes Mountains at elevations of . As of 2018, it was evaluated as a least-concern species by the

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, which is its lowest conservation priority.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1592492 Sturnira Mammals of Colombia Mammals described in 1915 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Bats of South America Mammals of Peru Mammals of Ecuador Mammals of Venezuela