Sturnira

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Sturnira
File:Sturnira tildae.jpg
Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira tildae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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 HMS Starling, which took part in an 1836 voyage to Brazil during which the type specimen was collected.[2] It contains the following species:

References

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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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