Syconycteris australis (Peters, 1867) . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 13.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Queensland, Rockhampton .

DISTRIBUTION: E. Queensland; New South Wales; New Guinea; Louisiade Arch.; D'Entrecasteaux Isis.; Trobriand Isis.; Molucca Isis.; Bismarck Arch.; various adjacent small islands.

COMMENT: Includes naias and crassa; see Lidicker and Ziegler, 1968, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 87:34, and Koopman, 1979, Am. Mus. Novit., 2960:8.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301405001035001001 as S. australis .

5301405001035002001 as S. crassa .

5301405001035003001 as S. naias.