Biology:Sturnira

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Short description: Genus of bats

Sturnira
Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira tildae)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Subfamily: Stenodermatinae
Genus: Sturnira
Gray, 1842
Type species
Sturnira spectrum [1]
Gray, 1842
Species

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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" and refers to Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist., which took part in an 1836 voyage to Brazil during which the type specimen was collected.[2] It contains the following species:

References

  1. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801309. 
  2. Giannini, N.P.; Barquez, R.M. (2003). "Sturnira erythromos". Mammalian Species 729: Number 729: pp. 1–5. doi:10.1644/729. 
  3. McCarthy, T. J.; Albuja, L.; Alberico, M. S. (2006). "A new species of chocoan Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae) from western Ecuador and Colombia". Annals of Carnegie Museum 75 (2): 97–111. doi:10.2992/0097-4463(2006)75[97:ANSOCS2.0.CO;2]. http://bibdigital.epn.edu.ec/handle/15000/4751. 

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.

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