Melonycteris fardoulisi mengermani Flannery, 1993b

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 : 382

Melonycteris fardoulisi mengermani Flannery, 1993b

Rec. Aust. Mus 45(1): 73, figs 11–12, tables 4–5. (19 March 1993).

Common name. Fardoulis’s Blossom Bat.

Current name. Melonycteris fardoulisi mengermani Flannery, 1993b ; following Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.22331 by original designation. Male adult, [Field no. LA545], skull, study skin, frozen tissue; collected 18 July [not September], 1990 by H. Parnaby; registered 14 August 1990. Originally preserved as a body in alc.

Condition. Cranium and dentaries complete. Soft palate retained on the skull. Study skin complete.

Type locality. Vanga Point (7°54'S 156°58'E), Kolombangara Island , Western Province, Solomon Islands .

Paratypes. (5, by original designation). M.22330, M.22332 and M.22333, all three are adult females, skulls, study skins, the first two with frozen tissue samples, all collected on 17 July 1990, other data as per holotype; M.22690, adult male, skull, body in alc., frozen tissue; M.22691, female, skull, body in alc., frozen tissue; both with same data as for holotype.

Comments. Six specimens in the type series, all captured in mist nets.