Sturnira hondurensis

G. G. Goodwin, 1940

Honduran 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

Goodwin, G.G. 1940-06-27. Three new bats from Honduras and the first record of _Enchisthenes harti_ (Thomas) for North America. American Museum Novitates 1075:1-3.

Original name as described

Sturnira hondurensis

Type material

AMNH M-126811

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"La Cruze Grande, near San Jose; elevation about 3000 feet [= 914 m]; Department La Paz, Honduras."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Guatemala · El Salvador · Honduras · Nicaragua

Taxonomy notes

split from S. ludovici

Taxonomy notes citation

Velazco, P. M., & Patterson, 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.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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