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.