Anoura geoffroyi Gray, 1838

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 : 16

Anoura geoffroyi Gray, 1838

VOUCHER MATERIAL: Waqanki: 2 adult females ( FMNH 203530 ; MUSM 39114 ), 2 adult males ( FMNH 203528 ; MUSM 39115 ) ; see table 7 for measurements.

IDENTIFICATION: The review of the Anoura geoffroyi species complex by Mantilla-Meluk and Baker (2010) elevated the two nonnominal subspecies of A. geoffroyi to species rank: A. peruana ( Tschudi, 1844) and A. lasiopyga (Peters, 1868) . Based on the distributions provided by Mantilla-Meluk and Baker (2010), two Anoura species occur in Peru: A. peruana from the middle to high elevations of the Andes from Bolivia to Colombia, and A. geoffroyi from middle and low elevations of the eastern versant of the Andes from Brazil to northern South America, including the island of Trinidad. However, Pacheco et al. (2018) suggested that Mantilla- Meluk and Baker (2010) erroneously removed A. geoffroyi from the list of species present in Peru. Our Mayo River basin voucher material conforms with previous descriptions of A. geoffroyi , sharing the diagnostic characteristics of the species with specimens from Brazil (e.g., AMNH 78288, 78296; see below) and hence confirming presence of this species in Peru.

Descriptions and measurements of Anoura geoffroyi have been reported by Griffiths and Gardner (2008a) and Mantilla-Meluk and Baker (2010). No subspecies are currently recognized in A. geoffroyi sensu stricto ( Mantilla-Meluk and Baker, 2010). The Mayo River basin specimens exhibit the diagnostic characteristics of the species: narrow uropatagium with a fringe of hair; lack of tail; zygomatic arches present; medial internal cusp of P5 prominently protruding from narrow base of tooth; upper and lower last two premolars narrow; and first lower premolar approximately the same size and shape as other lower premolars ( Griffiths and Gardner, 2008a; Mantilla-Meluk and Baker, 2010).