STENODERMATINAE, Gervais, 1856

Simmons, Nancy B. & Voss, Robert S., 1998, The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana, a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1, Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 237, pp. 1-219 : 97

STENODERMATINAE

Although other Amazonian sites are known to have more than 20 sympatric species of Stenodermatinae , we captured only 15 species of this phyllostomid subfamily at Paracou. Following the taxonomic usage recommended by Peffley et al. (MS), the Paracou species represent eight genera: Ametrida , Artibeus (including Dermanura and Koopmania ), Chiroderma , Ectophylla (including Mesophylla ), Platyrrhinus (formerly Vampyrops ), Sturnira , Uroderma , and Vampyressa . Collections from other localities in French Guiana and Surinam include an additional seven stenodermatine species (appendix 1), but for reasons explained below (see Analyses of Sampling: Estimating Completeness) we doubt that any of these normally occur within our study area.