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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http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
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10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
2201-4349
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Dobsonia beauforti
Bergmans, 1975
Beaufortia
23(295): 3, figs 2–9. (
16 January 1975
).
Common name
. Beaufort’s Naked-backed Fruit Bat.
Current name
.
Dobsonia beauforti
Bergmans, 1975
; following
Simmons (2005)
.
Paratype
.
M.9996
by original designation as
ZMA
16.475
.
Female
adult, skull, study skin, with embryo in alc. with same
AM
number (=
ZMA
16.549
). Collected on
25 December 1909
by
L. F. de Beaufort
from a cave near Nja-Njef, Waigeo Island,
West Papua
,
Indonesia
(previously Irian Jaya), the type locality. Received from
ZMA
in September 1975
.
Comments
.
Holotype
and remaining
12 paratypes
, all from the type locality, are in the
ZMA
Leiden, see
Bergmans (2011)
.