Anoura Gray 1838

Anoura Gray 1838, Mag. Zool. Bot., 2: 490.

Type Species: Anoura geoffroyi Gray 1838

Synonyms: Anura Agassiz 1846; Glossonycteris Peters 1868; Lonchoglossa Peters 1868 .

Species and subspecies: 5 species with 3 subspecies:

Species Anoura caudifer (E. Geoffroy 1818)

Species Anoura cultrata Handley 1960

Species Anoura geoffroyi Gray 1838

Subspecies Anoura geoffroyi subsp. geoffroyi Gray 1838

Subspecies Anoura geoffroyi subsp. lasiopyga Peters 1868

Subspecies Anoura geoffroyi subsp. peruana Tschudi 1844

Species Anoura latidens Handley 1984

Species Anoura luismanueli Molinari 1994

Discussion: Includes Lonchoglossa; see Cabrera (1958). Keys to species of Anoura were provided by Tamsitt and Nagorsen (1982) and Handley (1984), but usefulness of these keys has been reduced by subsequent descriptions of new species (i.e., by Handley [1984] and Molinari [1994]) and suggestions that other undescribed species exist (Emmons, 1997).