''Sturnira bakeri'' is a species of

bat Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out ...

found in

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Taxonomy

''Sturnira bakeri'' was described as a new species in 2014. Its description was the result of molecular and morphological new analyses. The

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had been collected in El Oro, which is in western

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

. The

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for the

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"''bakeri''" is the scientist

Robert James Baker Robert James Baker (8 April 1942–30 March 2018) was an American mammalogist. He studied bats, as well as the effects of radiation on animals. Early life and education Robert James Baker was born on 8 April 1942 in Warren, Arkansas to parents ...

, for his significant contribution "to the evolution of Neotropical phyllostomids".

Range and habitat

So far, this species was recorded in three countries of South-America :

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

and

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

.Montoya-Bustamante, S., Zapata-Mesa, N., González-Chávez, B., & Obando-Cabrera, L. 2017

References

Literature cited

* Montoya-Bustamante, S., Zapata-Mesa, N., González-Chávez, B., & Obando-Cabrera, L. 2017. First records of Sturnira bakeri Velazco & Patterson, 2014 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Colombia. Check List, 13, 1. * Sánchez, P., & Pacheco, V. 2016
New record of Sturnira bakeri Velazco & Patterson, 2014 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from northwestern Peru.
Check List, 12(5), 1984. * 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. Mammals described in 2014 Sturnira Bats of South America {{Leafnosed-bat-stub