Sturnira bakeri is a species of bat found in South-America.

Its description was the result of molecular and morphological new analyses.

The holotype had been collected in El Oro, which is in western Ecuador.

The eponym for the species name "bakeri" is the scientist Robert James Baker, for his significant contribution "to the evolution of Neotropical phyllostomids".

[2] So far, this species was recorded in three countries of South-America : Ecuador,[3] Peru[4] and Colombia.