Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney
Author
Parnaby, Harry E.
Author
Ingleby, Sandy
Author
Divljan, Anja
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Saccolaimus mixtus
Troughton, 1925
Rec. Aust. Mus.
14(4): 322, pl. xlvii–xlviii, two tables. (
9 April 1925
).
Common name
. Papuan Sheath-tailed Bat.
Current name
.
Saccolaimus mixtus
Troughton, 1925
; following Jackson & Groves (2015).
Holotype
. A.3257 by original designation. Male adult, body in alc., skull
in situ
, purchased from Kendall Broadbent and registered in
November 1878
.
The A Register
entry gives the locality as “
Port Moresby
”.
Condition
. Body in alc.: fur faded, broken left humerus, tear in left wing membrane between forearm and 5th digit, tear in right wing membrane between 4th and 5th digit.
Type locality
.
Port Moresby district
, Central Province,
Papua New Guinea
.
Paratypes
. (2, by original designation). Details as per
holotype
:
A.3256
, sex not recorded, skull;
A.3258
, male, skull, study skin.
Comments
. Type series of
three specimens
. These specimens were originally reported as “
Taphozous sp
” by
Ramsay (1879b: 243)
. See Chimimba & Kitchener (1991) for photographs of
paratype
skull A.3258.