Glossophaginae Bonaparte, 1845

Velazco, Paúl M., Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2021, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (451), pp. 1-201 : 40

Subfamily Glossophaginae Bonaparte, 1845

A total of 14 genera and 37 species are currently recognized in the subfamily Glossophaginae (Simmons, 2005; Griffiths and Gardner, 2008a; Nogueira et al., 2012; Simmons and Cirranello, 2020). Members of this subfamily are characterized by a long and slender muzzle; a long and highly extensible tongue, the tip of which is covered with hairlike papillae, and the lateral margins of which lack grooves; a lower lip that is divided by a deep vertical groove; a short or absent tail; zygomatic arches that are weak or incomplete; premolars with reduced cusps and styles; anteroposteriorly elongated molars; and upper molars lacking hypocones (Griffiths and Gardner, 2008a; Cirranello et al., 2016). We recorded four species in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve ( Anoura caudifer , Choeroniscus minor , Glossophaga bakeri , G. soricina ), but another two species ( Anoura geoffroyi , Lichonycteris degener ) are also expected to occur in our region (appendix 2).