Otolicnus mossambicus Peters, 1876
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:573F53A6-C003-453E-B7B8-7704BC116EA6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0399C768-7A50-FF84-FAC5-FEF2FD769BDD |
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Plazi |
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Otolicnus mossambicus Peters, 1876 |
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Otolicnus mossambicus Peters, 1876 View in CoL
Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , p. 473
Current valid name: Galago moholi Smith, 1836
Syntypes: ZMB 325, female, skull, skin, skeleton in alcohol (= An 14943); ZMB 1242, male, adult, in alcohol; Tette, Mossambique [Tete, Mozambique]; collected by Peters between 1843 and 1847 .
Comment : Peters (1852, p. 11), originally classified this species as Otolicnus senegalensis Geoffroy and revised this view in 1876. In Mozambique, as can be seen from the 1852 publication, more than 2 specimens were collected. The whereabouts of further specimens is unknown .
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