Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney
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Parnaby, Harry E.
Author
Ingleby, Sandy
Author
Divljan, Anja
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Emballonura dianae fruhstorferi
Flannery, 1995a
[not 1994]
Mammalia
58(4): 609, figs 3–4, table 2. (
23 February 1995
). Errata, fig. 4 see
Mammalia
59(1)
Common name
. Large-eared Sheath-tailed Bat.
Current name
.
Emballonura dianae fruhstorferi
Flannery, 1995a
; following
Simmons (2005)
.
Holotype
. M.19671 by original designation. Female adult, [Field no. AX8], skull, body in alc., collected by Ken Aplin,
4 December 1985
and registered
1 December 1988
.
Condition
. Cranium, dentaries and body in alc. in good condition, soft palate retained on the skull.
Type locality
.
Cave near
Fogamaiyo Village
(
6°31'S
143°05'E
, alt.
100–150 m
),
Southern Highlands Province
,
Papua New Guinea
.
Paratypes
. (13, by original designation). All are skulls, bodies in alc., and adult unless otherwise stated; collection date, and locality details as per
holotype
;
M.16497
, subadult male;
M.16514
, female;
M.16516
, male;
M.16539
, subadult male;
M.16541–42
, both male;
M.16544
, subadult male;
M.16585
, female;
M.16595
, subadult female;
M.16599
, male;
M.19671
, female;
M.19672
, male;
M.19673
, subadult female.
Comments
.
Type
series of
14 specimens
. The following
seven specimens
listed as referred specimens in the original description, have been re-assigned to
E. raffrayana
Dobson, 1879
(Ken Aplin pers. com., 2013): M.16545, M.16547–48, M.16574–75, and M.16576–77. The incorrect publication date of 1994 is entrenched in the literature.