''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
Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. The Sturnidae are named for the genus ''Sturnus'', which in turn comes from the Latin word for starling, ''sturnus''. Many Asian species, particularly the larger ones, ...
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specimen was collected.
It contains the following species:
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Angel's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira angeli''
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Aratathomas's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira aratathomasi''
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Baker's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira bakeri''
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Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira bidens''
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Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira bogotensis''
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Burton's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira burtonlimi''
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Hairy yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira erythromos''
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Gianna's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira giannae''
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Choco yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira hondurensis''
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Sturnira koopmanhilli
''Sturnira koopmanhilli'' is a species of leaf-nosed bat found in South America.
Taxonomy
It was described as a new species in 2006. The holotype had been collected in 1991 in Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve—a nature reserve in Ecuad ...
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Little yellow-shouldered bat
The little yellow-shouldered bat (''Sturnira lilium'') is a bat species from South and Central America. It is a frugivore
A frugivore is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, sho ...
, ''Sturnira lilium''
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Highland yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira ludovici''
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Louis's yellow-shouldered bat
Louis's yellow-shouldered bat (''Sturnira luisi'') is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru
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, ''Sturnira luisi''
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Greater yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira magna''
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Mistratoan yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira mistratensis''
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Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat
The Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat (''Sturnira mordax'') is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found only in Costa Rica and Panama, and there are no subspecies.
Description
The bat is relatively small, with adults measuri ...
, ''Sturnira mordax''
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Lesser yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira nana''
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Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira oporaphilum''
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Northern yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira parvidens''
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Paulson's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira paulsoni''
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La Perla yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira perla''
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Soriano's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira sorianoi''
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Thomas's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira thomasi''
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Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira tildae''
References
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.
Bat genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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