Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin
Author
Turni, Hendrik
Author
Kock, Dieter
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-09-03
1869
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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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Vespertilio Horsfieldii
Temminck, 1840
Temminck, C. J. (1840) Monographies de mammalogie, ou Description de quelques genres de mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées de l'Europe. Tome 2: 226 [1–392]. Leiden, 1835–1841.
Valid name:
Myotis horsfieldii
(Temminck, 1840)
Syntype
(marked with type * by Peters):
ZMB 2558
,
body in alcohol, skull extracted, female;
Java
,
Indonesia
; ex
RMNH
.
Comment:
Jentink (1888: 186)
listed five “cotypes” in
RMNH
from
Java
,
Mt. Gede
, coll.
Boie
; however, Temminck (1840) had named Kuhl &
van Hasselt
as collectors, given the type locality as the area of Buitenzorg (= Bogor) on
Java
,
and based his description on
14 specimens
.
ZMB 2558
is probably a
syntype
.
Tate (1940: 9)
recorded four “cotypes” in
RMNH
, leg.
Kuhl
&
van Hasselt
, from
Mt. Gédé
in
Java
.