Hsunycteris cadenai

(Woodman & Timm, 2006)

Cadena's Nectar Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Lonchophyllinae
Tribe : Hsunycterini
Genus : Hsunycteris

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Woodman, N. and Timm, R.M. 2006-12-22. Characters and phylogenetic relationships of nectar-feeding bats, with descriptions of new Lonchophylla from western South America (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllini). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119(4):437-476.

Original name as described

Lonchophylla cadenai

Other common names

Cadena's Small Nectar Bat

Type material

USNM:MAMM:483359

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Twenty-nine km SE of Buenaventura, 75 m elevation; east bank of Río Zabaletas, across from the village of Zabaletas (3°44' N, 76°57' W); Valle del Cauca Department; Colombia."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Ecuador

Taxonomy notes

recently described; moved from Lonchophylla to the recently described Hsunycteris

Taxonomy notes citation

Woodman, N., & Timm, R. M. (2006). Characters and phylogenetic relationships of nectar-feeding bats, with descriptions of new Lonchophylla from western South America (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllini). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 119(4), 437-476. · Parlos, J. A., Timm, R. M., Swier, V. J., Zeballos, H., & Baker, R. J. (2014). Evaluation of the paraphyletic assemblages within Lonchophyllinae, with description of a new tribe and genus. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University, 320, 1-23.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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