Dermanura Gervais, 1856

Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 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), pp. 1-69 : 23

Subgenus Dermanura Gervais, 1856

Small-sized Artibeus (Dermanura) species are difficult to unequivocally identify based solely on external morphology ( Simmons and Voss, 1998). The majority of the external characteristics proposed to differentiate species of Dermanura are highly variable within and among species (e.g., see discussion in Simmons and Voss, 1998). In order to positively identify all our voucher specimens of the subgenus Dermanura , we sequenced a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene and compared it with the sequences published by Solari et al. (2009). The molecular analysis of our sequences grouped our specimens into two species: A. anderseni and A. glaucus .