Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin Author Turni, Hendrik Author Kock, Dieter text Zootaxa 2008 2008-09-03 1869 1 1 82 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1869.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1 1175­5334 5133648 Vesperus cubanus Gundlach, 1861 Gundlach, J. (1861) In Peters: Eine Übersicht der von Herrn Dr. Gundlach beobachteten Flederthiere auf Cuba . Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1861: 150 [149–157]. Valid name: Nycticeius cubanus (Gundlach, 1861) , uncertain status. Lectotype (here designated): ZMB 2600 , skin and skull (damaged), female, adult; [Cardenas], Cuba ; collected by J. Gundlach. Paralectotypes : ZMB 2830 , body in alcohol . ZMB 2866 , skin, skull not extracted, male, juvenile . ZMB 2867 , skin, skull not extracted, juvenile. All specimens from Cuba , leg. J. Gundlach. Comment : In the original description the type locality is cited “as shot over a field at San Juan near Cardenas”. The description also gives external measurements of a dry specimen, which are identical with those of the female ZMB 2600 (remeasured), hence this specimen is here designated as the lectotype . Vesperus damarensis NOACK, 1889 Noack, T. (1889) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Säugethierfauna von Süd- und Südwest-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, 4: 213 [94–261]. Valid name: Neoromicia capensis (A. Smith, 1829) Syntypes : ZMB 86231 (old number = A 4902), skin and skull, female, adult. Uncatalogued (old number = A 4903), skin without skull in alcohol (missing), female, adult. Both specimens from Omburo, “Damaraland” (= country of the Damara), Namibia ; collected by Schinz , August 1886 . Comment : Noack described Vesperus damarensis from three female syntypes , two of which were in the Berlin collections, however, only one [ ZMB 86231] was located during this survey. The third syntype is in the collections of the Zoological Institute of University Zurich , Switzerland (Marianne Haffner, pers. comm.). The description records two collecting localities for the syntypes ; besides Omburo (see above), it also lists Golabu (= Golabie) in Damaraland , which might be the locality of the Zurich syntype .