Scoteinus balstoni caprenus Troughton, 1937c

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 399

Scoteinus balstoni caprenus Troughton, 1937c

Aust. Zool. 8(4): 279. (12 March 1937).

Common name. Broad-nosed Bat.

Current name. Scotorepens greyii (J. Gray, 1843) ; following Simmons (2005) and Jackson & Groves (2015). Status unresolved, a comprehensive generic revision is required ( Parnaby, 2008).

Holotype. M.1322 by original designation. Male adult, skull, body in alc., collected by Dr K. Dahl, received in 1898 from Christiania Museum (now NHMO), registered in July 1898. Collection date not given.

Condition. Cranium with left zygomatic arch missing; cranium and dentaries otherwise complete. Body in alc. with hole in ventral surface and fur slip, broken left humerus and hole in left wing membrane between 4th and 5th digit.

Type locality. Roebuck Bay , Western Australia .

Paratype. M.2688 by original designation. Male, skull, study skin, King Sound, Kimberley district , WA, collected by Dr Herbert Basedow, registered 24 April 1917 .

Comments. Kitchener & Caputi (1985) provide detailed measurements of the holotype and photographs of the holotype skull (as Scotorepens greyii (J. Gray, 1843)) . This entity is usually regarded as a synonym of S. greyii , following Kitchener & Caputi (1985). Koopman (1984), who examined the types, placed caprenus with balstoni ( Thomas, 1906c) rather than greyii . An extensive examination of skull morphology within the genus by HEP also suggests that caprenus more closely resembles S. balstoni than S. greyii in skull proportions and morphology, as originally proposed by Troughton.