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Vespertilio fimbriatus Peters 1871

Description

Vespertilio fimbriatus Peters, 1871

Peters, W. C. H. (1871) In Swinhoe, R.: Catalogue of the mammals of China (south of the River Yangtse) and of the Island of Formosa. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London, 1871 [for 1870]: 617 [615–653]; London. Bats submitted to W. Peters, who supplied names and descriptions of n.sp.

Valid name: Myotis fimbriatus (Peters, 1871)

Holotype (designated by Pohle 1943: 323): ZMB 4148, skin and skull (extracted in 1940), male; Amoy (= Xiamen, Fujian), China; collected by Swinhoe, July 1867, donated by Swinhoe between 20 March and 14 April 1870.

Paratypes (same locality, collector and date as for the holotype): ZMB 4147 and 4149 – 4151, four unsexed skins and skulls.

Comment: Pohle (1943: 321) suggested that one of three specimens in the BMNH collected by Swinhoe, identified by Dobson (1878: 299) as “type”, on the basis of identical data to that of specimens sent by the collector to Peters, has no nomenclaturial status. Corbet & Hill (1992: 125) considered two BMNH specimens of V. fimbritatus to be paratypes. The fimbriatus “type” specimen in the BMNH was, however, purchased from Swinhoe at a date after the species name was published by Peters.

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 page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5133648

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMB
Material sample ID
ZMB 4147 , ZMB 4148
Scientific name authorship
Peters
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Vespertilio
Species
fimbriatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Vespertilio fimbriatus Peters, 1871 sec. Turni & Kock, 2008

References

  • Peters, W. C. H. (1871) Bats submitted to W. Peters, who supplied names and descriptions of n. sp. In: Swinhoe, R.: Catalogue of the mammals of China (south of the River Yangtse) and of the Island of Formosa. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London, 1870, 615 - 653, London (1871).
  • Pohle, H. (1943) Die Originale der Peters'schen Beschreibung chinesischer Fledertiere 1870. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 15 (1940), 321 - 323.
  • Dobson, G. E. (1878) Catalogue of Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London, British Museum, 567 pp.
  • Corbet, G. B. & Hill, J. E. (1992) The mammals of the Indomalayan Region: A systematic review. Oxford University Press, 488 pp.