Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin
Author
Turni, Hendrik
Author
Kock, Dieter
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Zootaxa
2008
2008-09-03
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1869.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1
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Rhinolophus hildebrandtii
Peters, 1878
Peters, W.C.H. (1878) Über die von Hrn. J.M. Hildebrandt während seiner letzten ostafrikanischen Reise gesammelten Säugethiere und Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu
Berlin
, 1878: 195 [194–209].
Valid name:
Rhinolophus hildebrandtii
Peters, 1878
Syntypes
:
ZMB 5267
, body in alcohol, skull extracted, adult
.
ZMB 5378 – 5379
, skins, skulls extracted, males. All specimens from Ndi,
Taita
,
Kenya
; collected by
Hildebrandt
,
July 1877
.
Comment: In the current list of mammal type specimens at
BMNH
(http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/ research-curation/projects/mammal-types/) the specimen 1879.1.21.1 is identified as the
holotype
of
Rhinolophus hildebrandtii
. However,
Thomas (1894)
mentioned for the collections of
BMNH
only a “typical” specimen, not a type specimen, hence specimen 1879.1.21.1 possibly represents a
syntype
.