Sturnira

Sturnira lilium

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 Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Ordo: Chiroptera Subordo: Yangochiroptera Superfamilia: Noctilionoidea

Familia: Phyllostomidae
Subfamilia: Stenodermatinae
Tribus: Sturnirini
Genus: Sturnira
Species (24): S. adrianae – S. angeli – S. aratathomasi – S. bakeri – S. bidens – S. bogotensis – S. burtonlimi – S. erythromos – S. giannae – S. hondurensis – S. koopmanhilli – S. lilium – S. ludovici – S. luisi – S. magna – S. mistratensis – S. mordax – S. nana – S. oporaphilum – S. parvidens – S. paulsoni – S. perla – S. sorianoi – S. tildae

Name

Sturnira Gray, 1842: 257

• Type species: Sturnira spectrum Gray, 1842, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Nyctiplanus Gray, 1849: 58
  • Type species: Nyctiplanus rotundatus Gray, 1849, by monotypy.
• Corvira Thomas, 1915: 310
  • Type species: Corvira bidens Thomas, 1915, by original designation and monotypy.
• Sturnirops Goodwin, 1938: 1
  • Type species: Sturnirops mordax Goodwin, 1938, by original designation and monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Gray. J.E. 1842. Descriptions of some new genera and fifty unrecorded species of Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Serie 1 10(65): 255–267. BHL
• Gray. J.E. 1849. Observations of some Brazilian bats, with the description of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 16: 57–58. BHL
• Thomas, O. 1915. A new genus of phyllostome bats and a new Rhipidomys from Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Serie 8 16(64): 310–312. BHL
• Goodwin, G.G. 1938. A new genus of bat from Costa Rica. American Museum Novitates 976: 1–2. hdl: 2246/3916

Additional references

• Jarrín-V., P. & Kunz, T.H. 2011. A new species of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from the Choco forest of Ecuador. Zootaxa 2755(1): 1–35. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2755.1.1 Reference page. 
• Jarrín-V, P. & Clare, E.L. 2013. Systematics of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Ecuador, with comments on species boundaries. Zootaxa 3630(1): 165–183. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3630.1.7 Reference page. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• Molinari, J., Bustos, X.E., Burneo, S.F., Camacho, M.A., Moreno, S.A. & Fermín, G. 2017. A new polytypic species of yellow-shouldered bats, genus Sturnira (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), from the Andean and coastal mountain systems of Venezuela and Colombia. Zootaxa 4243(1): 75–96. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4243.1.3 Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Velazco, P.M. & Patterson, B.D. 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: 1–67. hdl: 2246/6933 Reference page. 

Links

• Sturnira 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.

Vernacular names

English: Yellow-shouldered Bats

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