Sturnira Gray 1842

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Phyllostomidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 395-426 : 414

Sturnira Gray 1842

Sturnira Gray 1842 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10: 257.

Type Species: Sturnira spectrum Gray 1842

Synonyms: Nyctiplanus Gray 1849 ; Sturnirops Goodwin 1938 .

Species and subspecies: 14 species with 11 subspecies in 2 subgenera:

Subgenus Sturnira (Sturnira) Gray 1842

Subgenus Sturnira (Corvira) Thomas 1915

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) aratathomasi Peterson and Tamsitt 1968

Species Sturnira (Corvira) bidens Thomas 1915

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) bogotensis Shamel 1927

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) erythromos Tschudi 1844

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) lilium (E. Geoffroy 1810)

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) lilium subsp. lilium E. Geoffroy 1810

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) lilium subsp. angeli de la Torre 1966

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) lilium subsp. luciae Jones and Phillips 1976

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) lilium subsp. parvidens Goldman 1917

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) lilium subsp. paulsoni de la Torre 1966

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) lilium subsp. serotinus Genoways 1998

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) lilium subsp. vulcanensis Genoways 1998

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) lilium subsp. zygomaticus Jones and Phillips 1976

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) ludovici Anthony 1924

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) ludovici subsp. ludovici Anthony 1924

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) ludovici subsp. hondurensis Goodwin 1940

Subspecies Sturnira (Sturnira) ludovici subsp. occidentalis Jones and Phillips 1964

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) luisi Davis 1980

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) magna de la Torre 1966

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) mistratensis Vega and Cadena 2000

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) mordax Goodwin 1938

Species Sturnira (Corvira) nana Gardner and O'Neill 1971

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) oporaphilum Tschudi 1844

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) thomasi de la Torre and Schwartz 1966

Species Sturnira (Sturnira) tildae de la Torre 1959

Discussion: Includes Corvira ; see Jones and Carter (1976). Davis (1980) gave a key to all but one of the species recognized here. Two subgenera are recognized, Sturnira and Corvira . Phylogenies of the genus have been proposed by Pacheco and Patterson (1991) and Villalobos and Valerio (2002).