Pteropus rennelli Troughton, 1929a

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 : 386

Pteropus rennelli Troughton, 1929a

Rec. Aust. Mus. 17(4): 193, tables 1–2. (4 September 1929).

Common name. Rennell Flying-fox.

Current name. Pteropus rennelli Troughton, 1929a ; following Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.4217 by original designation. Female adult, skull, study skin, collected and presented by Mr G. A. V. Stanley, registered on 8 November 1927. Collected in 1927 (Troughton, 1929a).

Condition. Cranium missing right side of occipital area and auditory capsule; both dentaries complete. Study skin: minor holes in wing membranes, broken left and right humerus, right tibia and right 3rd, 4th and 5th proximal phalanges.

Type locality. Rennell Island, Rennell and Bellona Province, Solomon Islands.

Comments. Description based on one specimen and known from very few subsequent specimens. Photographs of holotype cranium and dentaries are given by Flannery (1995c). Almeida et al. (2014) conclude that P. rennelli and P. cognatus K. Andersen, 1908 are closely related and suspect they might be conspecific subspecies.