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 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.