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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Pteropus personatus
Temminck, 1827
Temminck, C. J. (1827) Monographies de mammalogie, ou Description de quelques genres de mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées de l'Europe. Tome 1: 189 [1–268]. Paris 1827.
Valid name:
Pteropus personatus
Temminck, 1827
Syntype
(marked with type * in Peters´ handwriting):
ZMB 2635
,
skin and skull, male, adult; Ternate
Id.
,
Moluccas, Indonesia
; collected by
Reinwardt
, 1821, in exchange from
RMNH
.
Comment: Temminck described this species on the basis of
two specimens
[
syntypes
]. These
two specimens
had been preserved in the
RMNH
collections alledgedly until 1888 (
Jentink
: 140), but
Matschie (1899: 32)
reported only
one specimen
from
Ternate
(leg.
Reinwardt
) was present in
RMNH
.
ZMB 2635
is a catalogue number given by Peters presumably in the 1860s. So Peters had received this specimen long before he died (1883).
ZMB 2635
is supposed to be one of the
two specimens
used by Temminck for the description
.