Lionycteris spurrelli Thomas, 1913

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 : 18

Lionycteris spurrelli Thomas, 1913

VOUCHER MATERIAL: El Diamante: 5 adult females ( FMNH 203344 , 203540 ; MUSM 39194 , 39196 , 39197 ), 1 adult male ( FMNH 203538 ), 1 juvenile male ( MUSM 39195 ) ; see table 8 for measurements.

IDENTIFICATION: Descriptions and measurements of Lionycteris spurrelli have been provided by Phillips (1971), Carter and Dolan (1978),

Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), Williams and Genoways (1980), Koopman (1993), Zortéa et al. (1998), Gregorin and Ditchfield (2005), Woodman and Timm (2006), and Woodman (2007). No subspecies are currently recognized in L. spurrelli ( Griffiths and Gardner, 2008b) . Our specimens conform in all respects with previous descriptions of this species and exhibit the diagnostic characteristics of L. spurrelli : base of dorsal pelage darker than tips; GLS <21 mm; rostrum shorter than braincase; upper premolars not conspicuously elongated; well-developed lingual cusps present on both upper premolars; p4 and p5 short and broad; and main cusps of p4 and p5 high and narrow ( Woodman and Timm, 2006; Griffiths and Gardner, 2008b). Our vouchers fall within the range of measurements reported for L. spurrelli .

REMARKS: Two females (MUSM 39196, 39197) that we collected were lactating.