Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney Author Parnaby, Harry E. Author Ingleby, Sandy Author Divljan, Anja text Records of the Australian Museum 2017 2017-10-06 69 5 277 420 http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653 journal article 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653 2201-4349 5237800 68F315FF-3FEB-410E-96EC-5F494510F440 Emballonura serii Flannery, 1995a [not 1994] Mammalia 58(4): 606, fig. 2, table 1. ( 23 February 1995 ) Common name . Seri’s Sheath-tailed Bat. Current name . Emballonura serii Flannery, 1995a ; following Simmons (2005) . Holotype . M.19845 by original designation. Female adult, [Field no. FE453], skull, body in alc., frozen tissue; collected on 21 June 1988 by T. F. Flannery, L. Seri and T. Ennis; registered 23 January 1989 . Condition . Cranium and dentaries complete, soft palate retained on skull. Body in alc. has hole in left wing membrane between forearm and 5th digit. Type locality . Matapara Cave , near Medina ( 2°55'S 151°23' E ), New Ireland , New Ireland Province , Papua New Guinea (latitude mistakenly given as 2°55'N in original account) . Paratypes . (3, by original designation).All are adult females, collection date and locality as per holotype : M.19843 , skull, body in alc., frozen tissue; M.19844 , body in alc., frozen tissue; M.20895 , cranium without dentaries, body in alc. Comments . Type series of four specimens . Colgan & Soheili (2008) included samples from the holotype and two paratypes (M.19843–45) in their mDNA sequencing study of lineages of emballonurids from the south-west Pacific.