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
Subordo: Cynodontia
Infraordo: 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: Microchiroptera
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 Open access
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 Paywall 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 Paywall 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 Open access 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 Open access 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
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:
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[3]
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
Thomas's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira thomasi
Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira tildae
References
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.
Giannini, N.P. & Barquez, R.M. (2003). "Sturnira erythromos". Mammalian Species. 729: Number 729: pp. 1–5. doi:10.1644/729.
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:ANSOCS]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86259761.
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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