Sturnira magna

de la Torre, 1966

Greater 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
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

de la Torre, L. 1966-12-01. New bats of the genus Sturnira (Phyllostomidae) from the Amazonian lowlands of Perú and the Windward Islands, West Indies. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 79:267-272.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34562961

Original name as described

Sturnira magna

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:87059

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=93e7c608-7210-4ac0-a1ed-79cae1edee57

Type locality

"Santa Cecilia (100 m), Río Manití, Iquitos, Department of Loreto, Perú."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia · Brazil

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005084

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Sturnira magna

de la Torre, 1961

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

magna

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

unpublished_thesis

Type

FMNH:Mamm:87059

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=93e7c608-7210-4ac0-a1ed-79cae1edee57

Authority page

130

Authority publication

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sturnira magna

de la Torre, 1966

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

magna

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:87059

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=93e7c608-7210-4ac0-a1ed-79cae1edee57

Authority page

267

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34562961

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:58) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:165) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Owen (1987:61, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55010684) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17399)
  4. Corbet & Hill (1991:64) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  5. Koopman (1993:193) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
  6. Koopman (1994:86) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
  7. Anderson (1997:250) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5773)
  8. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #20956) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #20956) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  11. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:548) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  12. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005084) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  13. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/20956/22049622) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Sturnira magnum

Rodríguez-Mahecha, Hernández-Camacho, M. S. Alberico, Mast, Mittermeier, & Cadena, 1995

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

magna

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

unjustified_emendation

Authority page

15 (footnote)

Authority publication

Conservation International

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