Sturnira paulsoni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Ordo: Chiroptera Subordo: Yangochiroptera Superfamilia: Noctilionoidea

Familia: Phyllostomidae
Subfamilia: Stenodermatinae
Tribus: Sturnirini
Genus: Sturnira
Subgenus: Sturnira (Sturnira)
Species: Sturnira paulsoni

Name

• Sturnira paulsoni de la Torre & Schwartz, 1966: 301

Holotype: USNM 361882, adult ♀, skin and skull.

Type locality: ““Lowrt, 1000 ft, St. Andrew Parish, Saint Vincent, British Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.”

Taxonomic note: described as species, reduced to subspecies of Sturnira lilium by Jones & Phillips (1976: 11) and restaured to species status by Velazco & Patterson, (2013: 694).

Synonyms

• Sturnira lilium luciae Jones Jr. & Phillips, 1976: 11 [synonymised by Velazco & Patterson (2013: 694)]

Holotype: KU 110137, adult ♂, skin and skull.

Type locality: “½ mi. SE Bogius, 100 ft., Dauphin Parish, St. Lucia”, Lesser Antilles.

• Sturnira lilium serotinus Genoways, 1998: 2 [synonymised by Velazco & Patterson (2013: 694)]

Holotype: USNM 16493, adult ♂, skin and skull.

Type locality: “Birch Grove, St. Andrew Parish, Grenada.”

References

Primary references

• de la Torre, L. & Schwartz, A. 1966. New species of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from the islands of Guadeloupe and Saint Vincent, Lesser Antilles. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 79: 279–303.
• Jones Jr., J.K. & Phillips, C.J. 1976. Bats on the genus Sturnira in the Lesser Antilles. Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 40: 1–16. Reference page. 
• Genoways, H.H. 1998. Two new subspecies of bats of the genus Sturnira from the Lesser Antilles, West Indies. Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 176: 1–7.
• Velazco, P.M. & Partterson, B.D. 2013. Diversification of the yellow-shouldered bats, genus Sturnira (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae), in the New World tropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68(3): 683–698. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.04.016 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Gannon, M.R., Willig, M.R. & Jones Jr., J.K. 1989. Sturnira lilium. Mammalian Species 333: 1–5. DOI: 10.2307/3504237
• 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: 43–66. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.402.7228 Reference page. 

Links

• Sturnira lilium paulsoni in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.