Sturnira Gray, 1842

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 : 26

Sturnira Gray, 1842

The genus Sturnira currently includes 23 described species and one unnamed form, making it the most speciose phyllostomid genus ( Velazco and Patterson, 2013; Velazco and Patterson, 2014; Molinari et al., 2017). A multilocus phylogenetic analysis of the genus by Velazco and Patterson (2013) identified three unnamed taxa. Two of these were subsequently described by Velazco and Patterson (2014) as S. bakeri and S. burtonlimi . The third, “ S [turnira]. new species 3,” long confused with and considered part of S. lilium , is described below. It is one of the most widely distributed species in the genus. Three Sturnira species were recorded at the three sampled localities.