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Pteropus capistratus Peters 1876

Description

Pteropus capistratus Peters, 1876

Peters, W.C.H. (1876) Mittheilung über die Pelzrobbe von den Inseln St. Paul und Amsterdam und über die von S.M.S. Gazelle mitgebrachten Flederthiere. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876: 316 [315–319].

Valid name: Pteropus capistratus Peters, 1876

Syntypes (identified by Andersen 1912: 321): ZMB 4998, skin, male, subadult. ZMB 4999, skin and skull, female, subadult. Both from New Ireland, Papua-New Guinea; collector unknown; Expedition S.M.S “Gazelle” 1876.

Comment: The New Ireland population probably represents a distinct subspecies Pteropus capistratus ennisae (see Flannery & White, 1991).

Notes

Published as part of Turni, Hendrik & Kock, Dieter, 2008, Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 1869 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5133648

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMB
Family
Pteropodidae
Genus
Pteropus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
ZMB 4998, ZMB 4999
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Peters
Species
capistratus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Pteropus capistratus Peters, 1876 sec. Turni & Kock, 2008

References

  • Andersen, K. (1912) Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum. I. Megachiroptera. British Museum (Natural History), London, 854 pp.
  • Flannery, T. F. & White, J. P. (1991) Animal translocation. Zoogeography of New Ireland mammals. National Geographic Research and Exploration, 7, 96 - 113.