Sturnira giannae

Velazco & B. D. Patterson, 2019

Gianna's Yellow-shouldered Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Stenodermatinae
Tribe : Sturnirini
Genus : Sturnira
Subgenus : Sturnira

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Velazco, P.M. and Patterson, B.D. 2019-04-05. 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.

Original name as described

Sturnira giannae

Type material

AMNH M-268545

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Paracou (5°17' N, 53°55' W, 210 m), near Sinnamary, Cayenne, French Guiana."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Venezuela · Trinidad and Tobago · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Brazil · Bolivia

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Velazco, PM, & Patterson, BD (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 , 2019 (429), 1-70.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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