Sturnira

''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 , which took part in an 1836 voyage to Brazil during which the type specimen was collected. It contains the following species:
* Angel's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira angeli''
* Aratathomas's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira aratathomasi''
* Baker's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira bakeri''
* Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira bidens''
* Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira bogotensis''
* Burton's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira burtonlimi''
* Hairy yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira erythromos''
* Gianna's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira giannae''
* Choco yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira hondurensis''
* '' Sturnira koopmanhilli''
* Little yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira lilium''
* Highland yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira ludovici''
* Louis's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira luisi''
* Greater yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira magna''
* Mistratoan yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira mistratensis''
* Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira mordax''
* Lesser yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira nana''
* Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira oporaphilum''
* Northern yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira parvidens''
* Paulson's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira paulsoni''
* La Perla yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira perla''
* Soriano's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira sorianoi''
* Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira tildae''

References

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.

Bat genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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