Sturnira paulsoni

Sturnira paulsoni, called Paulson's yellow-shouldered bat, is a fruit-eating leaf-nosed bat of the family Phyllostomidae and is endemic to the Lesser Antilles. De la Torre and Schwartz first described it as a species in 1966, Jones and Phillips reduced it to a subspecies of Sturnira lilium in 1976, and it regained species status in 2013. It lives on Saint Vincent, Grenada and Saint Lucia, mainly in native humid tropical forest. A study of its echolocation calls found that it is adapted to fly in highly cluttered spaces but can also fly fast and efficiently in open areas. The IUCN assessed it as near threatened in 2019. As with most island species, the main dangers are hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, together with changes in land use and agriculture.