Sturnira known as a yellow-shouldered bat or American epauleted bat, is a genus of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. The genus name comes from the Latin for "starling" and refers to , which took part in an 1836 voyage to Brazil during which the type specimen was collected. It contains the following species: Angel's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira angeli Aratathomas's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira aratathomasi Baker's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira bakeri Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira bidens Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira bogotensis Burton's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira burtonlimi Hairy yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira erythromos Gianna's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira giannae Choco yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira hondurensis Sturnira koopmanhilli Little yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira lilium Highland yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira ludovici Louis's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira luisi Greater yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira magna Mistratoan yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira mistratensis Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira mordax Lesser yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira nana Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira oporaphilum Northern yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira parvidens Paulson's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira paulsoni La Perla yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira perla Soriano's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira sorianoi Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira tildae
References
Velazco, P.M. & B.D. Patterson. 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 429:1-70.