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 1 1 82 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1869.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1 1175­5334 5133648 Epomophorus pusillus Peters, 1868 Peters, W.C.H. (1868) Eine Übersicht der Flughunde. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , 1868 [for 1867]: 870 [865–872] . Valid name: Micropteropus pusillus ( Peters, 1868 ) Type species of Micropteropus Matschie, 1899 . Holotype : ZMB 3438 , body and skull (extracted) in alcohol, female, immature; “Yoruba”[land] = Country of the Yoruba , SE-Nigeria; collected by A. Mann , 1862, donated by F. von Krauss ( SMNS ). Comment: A former type designation by Peters (1868: 870) was refuted by Andersen (1912: 558) . However, his rejection, which was based merely on technical grounds, is unjustified as shown by Bergmans (1989: 99) , and confirmed by Kock et al. (2002: 82) . A further specimen ZMB 3475 in the general catalogue is also marked with a type asterisk, presumably by Peters. However, ZMB 3475, which was collected in Lagos and acquired from Salmin, was not part of the original description, hence its marking as “ type ” is rather inexplicable.