Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat
The bidentate yellow-shouldered bat is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.It was described as a new species in 1915 by British zoologist Oldfield Thomas.
The holotype had been collected by Walter Goodfellow in April 1914 in Baeza, Ecuador.
Thomas described a new, now-defunct genus, Corvira, giving the species the binomial of Corvira bidens.
The species name "bidens" is Latin for "two teeth;" of the bidentate yellow bat, Thomas wrote, "lower incisors only two."Description
It has a forearm length of.
It has a long and narrow snout and an overall narrow skull.
It has a dental formula of for a total of 30 teeth.Its range includes Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
It is found in association with the Andes Mountains at elevations of.Conservation
As of 2018, it is evaluated as a least-concern species by the IUCN, which is its lowest conservation priority.
It has a wide geographic range; its population is presumably large; and it is unlikely to be experiencing rapid population decline.
Its population is not severely fragmented, and its population trend is projected as stable.
