Sturnira parvidens

E. A. Goldman, 1917

Northern 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

Goldman, E.A. 1917-05-23. New mammals from North and Middle America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 30:107-116.

Original name as described

Sturnira lilium parvidens

Type material

USNM:MAMM:126555

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Papayo (about 25 miles [= 40 km] northwest of Acapulco), Guerrero, Mexico."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Guatemala · Belize · Honduras · El Salvador · Nicaragua · Costa Rica

Taxonomy notes

split from S. lilium

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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