Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney
Author
Parnaby, Harry E.
Author
Ingleby, Sandy
Author
Divljan, Anja
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Records of the Australian Museum
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Planigale tenuirostris
Troughton, 1928
Rec. Aust. Mus.
16(6): 285, figs 2a–g, plate xxxix. (
11 June 1928
).
Common name
. Narrow-nosed
Planigale
.
Current name
.
Planigale tenuirostris
Troughton, 1928
; following Jackson & Groves (2015).
Holotype
. M.3933 by original designation (erroneously as M.3856). Adult female, skull, body in alc., collected by
Richard Helms
in “May or June, 1890”, during the
Darling River
floods, registered
27 June 1927
, re-registered from the “Old Collection”.
Condition
. Cranium missing both zygomatic arches, missing occipital area and fracture in the right parietal bone; both dentaries complete. Body in alc.: dorsal fur slip, tail tip is almost detached.
Type locality
. Darling River, at Bourke or Wilcannia, NSW,
Australia
.
Paratype
.
M.3934 by original designation (erroneously as M.3857). Young female, skull and skin in alc., same data as holotype.
Comments
.
Archer (1976: 356)
noted that Troughton mistakenly gave the
holotype
and
paratype
registration as M.3856 and M.3857, respectively, in his original description, a mistake that was repeated subsequently (e.g.,
Tate, 1947
). It is likely that Troughton’s citation of the incorrect registration numbers was simply an error. M.3856 and M.3857 were both registered as
Pteropus poliocephalus
in
January 1927
without amendment. An undated note written in Troughton’s hand in the register after M.3855 states “Special note—Two specimens of
Planigale tenuirostris
said to be registered M.3856–57 (in
Rec. Aust.
Mus
. xvi, 6, 1928, p. 287) are actually registered as M.3933–34.”