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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Records of the Australian Museum
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
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10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
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Anamygdon solomonis
Troughton, 1929b
Rec. Aust. Mus.
17(2): 89, fig. 1, table 1. (
26 June 1929
).
Common name
. Solomon Large-footed
Myotis
.
Current name
.
Myotis moluccarum solomonis
(Troughton, 1929b)
, following
Simmons (2005)
.
Holotype
. M.4361 by original designation. Female adult, skull, study skin, collected in 1928 by J. H. L. Waterhouse, registered in
August 1928
. The original register entry lists a body in alc. in addition to the skin, but the skinned body has not yet been located in the collection.
Condition
. Cranium with broken left zygomatic arch; dentaries complete. Study skin has tear in the distal end of left wing membrane between 3rd and 4th digits, otherwise in reasonable condition.
Type locality
. Roviana Island, New Georgia Group,
Western Province
,
Solomon Islands
.
Comments
. Described from the
holotype
only. Few additional specimens of
Myotis
have been reported from the
Solomon Islands
and the species taxonomy of all Australasian
Myotis
needs further revision.
Kitchener
et al.
(1995)
who apparently did not examine the
holotype
of
solomonis
, suspected that
Myotis
from the
Solomon Islands
were a distinct taxon on the basis of the
two specimens
they examined but they referred these to
M.
m. moluccarum
, pending a more detailed assessment. Phillips & Birney (1968) synonymized
Anamygdon
with
Myotis
.