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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Velazco PM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4023253 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Velazco Paúl M PM Patterson Bruce D BD
ZooKeys 20140416 402
Two new species of yellow-shouldered bats Sturnira Gray, 1842 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Central America and western South America are described using molecular and morphological data. The two new species, which occur in Costa Rica and Panama and in western Ecuador, were previously confused with S. ludovici, and S. lilium and S. luisi, respectively. Sturnira now includes 22 described species, making it the most speciose genus in the Neotropical family Phyllostomidae. ...[more]