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<emphasis bold="true" box="[1024,1282,840,867]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Oligotomus australis</emphasis>
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MacGillivray in
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<emphasis box="[869,975,924,945]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Aust. Zool.</emphasis>
9(1): 45. (
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,1013,967,992]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Common name</emphasis>
. Greater Broadnosed bat.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,1016,1013,1037]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Current name</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis box="[1036,1279,1013,1037]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Scoteanax rueppellii</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Peters, W" box="[1300,1452,1013,1037]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" pagination="16 - 25" refId="ref141246" refString="Peters, W. 1866. Uber einige neue oder weniger bekannte Flederthiere. Monatsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin for 1866 1867: 16 - 25." type="journal article" year="1866">Peters, 1866</bibRefCitation>
)
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, following Kitchener &amp; Caputi (1985).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,1009,1087,1112]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Type material.</emphasis>
A
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series might include a female specimen obtained in
<date box="[1098,1270,1117,1141]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" value="1866-02">February 1866</date>
, as described by MacGillivray from the Clarence River region, north eastern NSW. It might also include an unspecified number of specimens sent to the
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, and possibly any
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<emphasis box="[1359,1469,1205,1228]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Scoteanax</emphasis>
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that were misidentified as
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<emphasis box="[1130,1357,1234,1258]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Vespertilio macropus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
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. We have not attempted to locate possible
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in the
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Collection.
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locality
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. Clarence River region, north eastern NSW,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,962,1413,1437]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Comments</emphasis>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Iredale, T" box="[974,1125,1413,1437]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" pagination="40 - 63" refId="ref133591" refString="Iredale, T. 1937. The last letters of John MacGillivray. Australian Zoologist 9 (1): 40 - 63." type="journal article" year="1937">Iredale (1937)</bibRefCitation>
published extracts of notebooks written by John MacGillivray and his letters to E. P. Ramsay in 186566 that included a notebook description of a new species and genus—
<taxonomicName box="[1075,1316,1501,1525]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Oligotomus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="australis">
<emphasis box="[1075,1316,1501,1525]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Oligotomus australis</emphasis>
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—along with drawings of the species (not reproduced by
<bibRefCitation author="Iredale, T" box="[1310,1455,1530,1554]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" pagination="40 - 63" refId="ref133591" refString="Iredale, T. 1937. The last letters of John MacGillivray. Australian Zoologist 9 (1): 40 - 63." type="journal article" year="1937">Iredale, 1937</bibRefCitation>
). The description was pasted into MacGillivrays notebook, apparently after a letter dated
<date box="[1177,1289,1589,1613]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" value="1865-07">July 1865</date>
. Iredale did not comment on the likely identity of this name, later placed in the synonymy of
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Peters" baseAuthorityYear="1866" box="[1063,1286,1647,1671]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Scoteanax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rueppellii">
<emphasis box="[1063,1286,1647,1671]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Scoteanax rueppellii</emphasis>
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by Kitchener &amp; Caputi (1985). MacGillivray stated that his proposed new genus
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<emphasis box="[911,1036,1706,1730]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Oligotomus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was tentative, suspecting that it might belong in the genus
<taxonomicName authorityName="Temminck" authorityYear="1827" box="[1069,1181,1736,1759]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Nycticejus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1069,1181,1736,1759]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Nycticejus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. MacGillivray stated that “Previously had sent some [bats] to Melbourne [McCoy Museum of
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], including numerous specimens of a largish one not belonging to any recorded Australian genus … They had it previously in the Sydney Museum [=
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] marked and published in the catalogue [
<bibRefCitation author="Krefft, G" box="[1283,1428,1882,1906]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" refId="ref134985" refString="Krefft, G. 1864 a. Catalogue of Mammalia in the collection of the Australian Museum. Australian Museum Catalogue No. 2. Sydney: Trustees of the Australian Museum. 2 + 134 + 2 pp." type="book" year="1864">Krefft 1864a</bibRefCitation>
] as
<taxonomicName box="[839,1065,1911,1935]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Vespertilio" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="macropus">
<emphasis box="[839,1065,1911,1935]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Vespertilio macropus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
[=
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Gould" baseAuthorityYear="1854" box="[1105,1289,1912,1935]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Myotis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="macropus">
<emphasis box="[1105,1289,1912,1935]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="405">Myotis macropus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
], a bat to which it bears neither generic nor specific resemblance” (
<bibRefCitation author="Iredale, T" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" pagination="40 - 63" refId="ref133591" refString="Iredale, T. 1937. The last letters of John MacGillivray. Australian Zoologist 9 (1): 40 - 63." type="journal article" year="1937">Iredale, 1937: 46</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation author="Krefft, G" box="[960,1117,1970,1994]" pageId="128" pageNumber="405" pagination="699 - 780" refId="ref136029" refString="Krefft, G. 1871 d. Australian vertebrata - fossil and recent. In The industrial progress of New South Wales, being a report of the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870, at Sydney; together with a variety of papers illustrative of the industrial resources of the colony, pp. 699 - 780. Sydney, NSW: Thomas Richards, Government Printer." type="book chapter" year="1871">Krefft (1871d)</bibRefCitation>
evidently recognized this taxon as
<taxonomicName box="[149,360,152,176]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Nycticejus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="129" pageNumber="406" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="australis">
<emphasis box="[149,360,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="129" pageNumber="406">Nycticejus australis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, commenting that he did not believe there were any endemic Australian bat genera. Kreffts publication of the name is a
<emphasis box="[433,584,210,234]" italics="true" pageId="129" pageNumber="406">nomen nudum</emphasis>
because he did not provide a description. MacGillivrays description of a forearm length of
<quantity box="[312,419,269,293]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.334" pageId="129" pageNumber="406" unit="in" value="2.1">2.1 inches</quantity>
(=
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) and “upper incisors … only two in number and not four” equates to
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<emphasis box="[632,742,299,322]" italics="true" pageId="129" pageNumber="406">Scoteanax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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