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 aurantius
Gray, 1845
Gray, J.E. (1845) Description of some new Australian animals. p. 405 [405–411]
in
Eyre, E.J. (1845) (ed.) Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central
Australia
, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the Years 1840-1. London. T. & W. Boone Vol. 1
Valid name:
Rhinonicteris aurantia
(Gray, 1845)
Presumably
Syntype
:
ZMB 3983
,
body in alcohol, skull extracted, male;
Port Essington
, N-Australia; presumably collected by
Sibbald
, donated by Gray, ex
BMNH
.
Comment: In the general catalogue
ZMB 3983
is marked with a type * by
Peters
and annotated as “Ex. orig. [original specimen]
Rhinolophus aurantius
Gray
”.
Further
syntypes
are in the
RMNH
and
MNHN
, and an assumed
holotype
is in the
BMNH
(1845.5.13.3).
However
,
Gray
did not designate a
holotype
; instead, the description by
Gray
(1845: 405) is based on several specimens, at least
one male
and
one female
.