Anoura

Anoura
Geoffroy's tailless bat (Anoura geoffroyi)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Subfamily: Glossophaginae
Genus: Anoura
Gray, 1838
Type species
Anoura geoffroyi
Gray, 1838
Species

Anoura aequatoris
Anoura cadenai
Anoura carishina
Anoura caudifer
Anoura cultrata
Anoura fistulata
Anoura geoffroyi
Anoura javieri
Anoura latidens
Anoura luismanueli
Anoura peruana

Anoura is a genus of leaf-nosed bats from Central and South America.[1] Anoura members lack or have a short tail, and are nectarivorous bats of small to medium size among the Phyllostomidae.[2]

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ Pacheco V, Sánchez-Vendizú P, Solari S (2018). "A new species of Anoura Gray, 1838 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Peru, with taxonomic and biogeographic comments on species of the Anoura caudifer complex". Acta Chiropterologica. 20 (1): 31–50. doi:10.3161/15081109ACC2018.20.1.002. S2CID 92377619.