Hipposideros edwardshilli Flannery & Colgan, 1993

Rec. Aust. Mus. 45(1): 45, figs 2–5, table 3. (19 March 1993)

Common name. Hill’s Leaf-nosed Bat.

Current name. Hipposideros edwardshilli Flannery & Colgan, 1993; following Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.21752 by original designation. Female adult, [pregnant], [Field no. FJ300], skull, body in alc., tongue in alc., frozen tissue; captured in a mist net, collected by P. German and L. Seri, 1 March 1990, registered 4 May 1990.

Condition. Cranium, both dentaries and body in alc. in good condition. Soft palate retained on the skull.

Type locality. Imonda Station (3°20'S 141°10'E, alt. 240 m), Bewani Mountains, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Paratypes. (5, by original designation). M.21753, adult male, skull, study skin, frozen tissue; same data as for holotype. M.21749, adult female, skull, body in alc.; M.21750, adult male, body in alc.; M.21751, adult male, body in alc., frozen tissue; all four are from a cave 150 m south-west of Imonda Airstrip, collected on 28 February 1990 by P. German and L. Seri. M.22841, adult female, body in alc., skull extracted and in alc., partly cleaned, collected by local people at Pou Village near Imonda, acquired by V. Kula, 8 June 1990.

Comments. Types series of six specimens .