Bogota yellow-shouldered bat

The Bogota yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira bogotensis) is a bat of the leaf-nosed family Phyllostomidae that lives in the mountains of northern South America. It is recorded from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, mostly in high-elevation montane areas and particularly in cloud forest, and older records from Bolivia and Argentina were later judged to be incorrect. The bat feeds mainly on fruit and may also take nectar and pollen. It is a medium-sized member of its genus, with a forearm length of roughly 43 to 45 millimetres, although some researchers suspect the true average is longer. It was first described in 1927 by the American mammalogist H. Harold Shamel as a subspecies of the little yellow-shouldered bat, from a holotype collected at Bogota, Colombia, and it is now treated as a species within a clade of Sturnira bats that includes the highland and greater yellow-shouldered bats. The IUCN evaluated it as least concern in 2018 and considers its population trend stable.