Melonycteris fardoulisi maccoyi Flannery 1993b

Rec.Aust. Mus 45(1): 71, figs 9–10, table 3. (19 March 1993).

Common name. Fardoulis’s Blossom Bat.

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

Holotype. M.18836 by original designation. Male adult, [Field no. FD730], skull, study skin, [skinned body in alc.], collected by T. F. Flannery, 27 November 1987; registered 26 April 1988.

Condition. Cranium with fracture in the right temporal bone, soft palate retained on the skull; both dentaries complete. Study skin complete.

Type locality. Naufe’e Village, [Kwaoi district], [8°55'S] (161°03'E, alt. 400 m), Malaita Island, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. The latitude 10°31'S given for Naufe’s village in the original account is a database error, and 8°55'S is based on the latitude of other AM vertebrate specimens collected by Flannery from that locality .

Paratype. M.18831 by original designation. Female adult, skull, study skin, [skinned body in alc.], collected by T. F. Flannery on 27 November 1987 at Sinalaggu Harbour, 4 km north of Naufe’e Village, sea level, Malaita Island, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands .

Comments. Two specimens in the type series.