Sturnira giannae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Ordo: Chiroptera Subordo: Yangochiroptera Superfamilia: Noctilionoidea

Familia: Phyllostomidae
Subfamilia: Stenodermatinae
Tribus: Sturnirini
Genus: Sturnira
Species: Sturnira giannae

Name

Sturnira giannae Velazco & Patterson, 2019: 26

• Holotype: AMNH 268545 (original field number 846), adult ♂, body in alcohol with skull removed, collected by Nancy B. Simmons on 8 October 1994.
• Type locality: “Paracou (05°17’N, 53°55’W, 210 m), near Sinnamary, Cayenne, French Guiana”.
• Paratypes (3): FMNH 203582 (original field number PMV 2295), adult ♀, collected by Paúl M. Velazco on 2 May 2007, “at the Waqanki locality”; MUSM 13260 (original field number RSV 2365), adult ♀, collected by Robert S. Voss on 5 July 1998, “at Nuevo San Juan (73°9′50′′W, 5°14′50′′S; 150 m above sea level), a Matses village on the right (SE) bank of the Río Gálvez in the Peruvian department of Loreto”; MUSM 39228 (original field number RCO 965), adult ♂, collected by Richard Cadenillas on 14 May 2007, “at El Diamante locality”.

Native distribution areas

• French Guiana: Cayenne commune
• Suriname: Sipaliwini district
• Guiana: Upper Demerara-Berbice region
• Venezuela: Bolívar state
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Colombia: not mentioned
• Ecuador: Orellana province
• Peru: Amazonas, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Cuzco, Huánuco, Junín, Loreto, Pasco, San Martín and Ucayali departments
• Bolivia: Pando and Beni departments
• Brazil: Amazonas and Pará states

References

Primary references

• Velazco, P.M. & Patterson, B.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 429: 1–67. hdl: 2246/6933 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Gianna’s Yellow-Shouldered Bat
español: Murciélago de Charreteras de Gianna