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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B18F7FF2DFE8E97E7" box="[197,347,198,219]" italics="true" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">Rec. Aust. Mus.</emphasis>
1(6): 105. (
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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1894FF1AFE819635" bold="true" box="[166,340,241,265]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">Common name</emphasis>
. Great Flying-fox.
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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1894FEF5FE87960A" bold="true" box="[166,338,286,310]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">Current name</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1956FEF4FCCC960A" box="[356,793,286,310]" italics="true" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">Pteropus neohibernicus neohibernicus</emphasis>
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.
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. (3) All
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,?female, study skin, skull apparently removed (not found), skin tag states “number 9”, October 1876, Rev. George Brown. Possibly adult based on the size of the skin. Label states “skull?”, but the skull has not been recorded during inventory and is unlikely to be in the Collection. The sex (female) was based on the appearance of the skin: no obvious penis, but the wings are folded and nipples cannot be assessed;
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), study skin,
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,?male, skin mount with skull
<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B192AFD0CFE8C95C2" box="[280,345,743,766]" italics="true" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">in situ</emphasis>
, skin label indicates from
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,
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.
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sub-adult, based on size
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.
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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1894FCDAFECF9475" bold="true" box="[166,282,817,841]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">Condition</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1914FCDAFE509475" bold="true" box="[294,389,817,841]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">PA.1260</emphasis>
: Study skin, with minor holes in wing membranes, fracture in left femur.
<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1A71FCA5FD70945A" bold="true" box="[579,677,846,870]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">PA.1261</emphasis>
: Cranium missing occipital area and lateral tips of postorbital processes, soft palate retained on skull. Study skin with minor holes in wing membranes.
<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1A13FC4DFD549482" bold="true" box="[545,641,934,958]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">PA.1262</emphasis>
: Skin mount, with bald patch in the lower dorsal side, membrane tears and broken bones of the left digits 2 and 3.
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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1895FBE5FE2D931A" bold="true" box="[167,504,1038,1062]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">Cranial measurements (mm)</emphasis>
. PA.1261: GL, —; NasL, 20.90; NasB, 6.95; UC1C1 (alv.), 13.36; PAL, 44.68*; UPM (alv.), 4.75; UMR (alv.), 10.51; ZB, 37.63; POC, 11.06; BUL, —; MB, —; DL (condyl.), 61.07; LPM (alv.), 5.27; LMR (alv.), 14.17. [* = estimate, posterior margin obscured by tissue].
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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1894FB25FEEF93DA" bold="true" box="[166,314,1230,1254]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">Type locality</emphasis>
. “
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Group of islands” (Ramsay),
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.
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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1894FAF2FEF5920D" bold="true" box="[166,288,1305,1329]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">Comments</emphasis>
.
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noted that
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Ramsay
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is a preoccupied name and is a junior homonym.
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É.
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occurs in
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and
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is a junior synonym of
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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1897FA64FE96929A" box="[165,323,1423,1446]" italics="true" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">Pteropus niger</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFE54B2FFFD7735B1961FA65FE1F929A" author="Kerr, R" box="[339,458,1422,1446]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387" refId="ref134102" refString="Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class 1. Mammalia: containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the Mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copper plates. Vol. 1, part 1. London: J. Murray &amp; R. Faulder. xl + 400 pp., 9 pl." type="book" year="1792">Kerr, 1792</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, see
<bibRefCitation id="EFE54B2FFFD7735B1A37FA65FD6E929A" author="Simmons, N" box="[517,699,1422,1446]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387" pagination="312 - 529" refId="ref144483" refString="Simmons, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, pp. 312 - 529. Baltimore, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press." type="book chapter" year="2005">Simmons (2005)</bibRefCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BCB36DEFFD7735B18F7FA47FA679089" blockId="110.[165,795,1305,1974]" lastBlockId="110.[837,1466,1890,1973]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">
The original material used by Ramsay as the basis of his description of
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<emphasis id="B900EACCFFD7735B1971FA22FEAF92DD" box="[323,378,1481,1505]" italics="true" pageId="110" pageNumber="387">rufus</emphasis>
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does not appear to have been reported in the literature, other than
<bibRefCitation id="EFE54B2FFFD7735B19D1FA0DFD0892C2" author="Andersen, K" box="[483,733,1510,1534]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387" refId="ref124618" refString="Andersen, K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 1. Megachiroptera. Second edition. London: British Museum (Natural History). ci + 854 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8322" type="book" year="1912">Andersen (1912: 389)</bibRefCitation>
, who noted that several “cotypes” were in the AM. We believe the
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listed above are likely to be from Ramsays original series, based on matching locality, date, and collector, combined with limited information written on old specimen tags. Ramsay based his description of cranial and external morphology on a single adult female specimen, but does not give field or registration numbers, or indicate the number of specimens examined. However he stated that “several specimens” of this new species were amongst a series of specimens obtained from Rev George Brown in 1875 and on that basis were are assuming that he based his description on several specimens. These specimens were received at the AM in
<date id="FFCA101EFFD7735B19AAF88FFDFE9047" box="[408,555,1891,1916]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387" value="1876-10">October 1876</date>
(AM Archives AMS7 Letters Received, C:10.76.03), but were later incorrectly reported as having been purchased during 1877 (
<bibRefCitation id="EFE54B2FFFD7735B1A8FF875FC559046" author="Ramsay, E" box="[701,896,1890,1974]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387" pagination="11 - 13" refId="ref142599" refString="Ramsay, E. P. 1878. Appendix VIII, Specimens purchased. In Report of the Trustees for the year ending 31 December, 1877, Australian Museum, pp. 11 - 13. Sydney, NSW: Thomas Richards, Government Printer." type="book chapter" year="1878">Ramsay, 1878</bibRefCitation>
). Collection dates were not given, but would have been sometime in the previous year, given that Brown first visited the
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in
<date id="FFCA101EFFD7735B1C4CF876FAD29089" box="[1150,1287,1949,1973]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387" value="1875-08">August 1875</date>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFE54B2FFFD7735B1D27F876FA739089" author="Brown, G" box="[1301,1446,1949,1973]" pageId="110" pageNumber="387" refId="ref125812" refString="Brown, G. 1908. George Brown, D. D. Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer. An Autobiography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. xii + 536 pp." type="book" year="1908">Brown, 1908</bibRefCitation>
).
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Figure 51. AM PA.1261, syntype skull of
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<bibRefCitation id="EFE54B2FFFD7735B1D5BF903FC539024" author="Ramsay, E" pageId="110" pageNumber="387" pagination="105 - 106" refId="ref143378" refString="Ramsay, E. P. 1891 b. On a new species of pteropine bat from the New Britain group. Records of the Australian Museum 1 (6): 105 - 106. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.1.1891.1239" type="journal article" year="1891">Ramsay, 1891b</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. (Photography by Stuart Humphreys).
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We suspect that Ramsays original adult female is amongst the
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listed here, and if so, it would be PA.1260, the skull of which has not been located. Cranial measurements of PA.1261 are smaller than those given for the adult female of Ramsays account. The rear of the braincase of PA.1261 has been cut off and has a greatest length of
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, but greatest skull length could not have been as long as
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given by Ramsay; zygomatic breadth is 38.4 vs
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, and “length of lower jaw from condyle” is 61.6 vs
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.
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