Anamygdon solomonis Troughton, 1929b

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Anamygdon solomonis Troughton, 1929b

Rec. Aust. Mus. 17(2): 89, fig. 1, table 1. (26 June 1929).

Common name. Solomon Large-footed Myotis .

Current name. Myotis moluccarum solomonis (Troughton, 1929b) , following Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.4361 by original designation. Female adult, skull, study skin, collected in 1928 by J. H. L. Waterhouse, registered in August 1928. The original register entry lists a body in alc. in addition to the skin, but the skinned body has not yet been located in the collection.

Condition. Cranium with broken left zygomatic arch; dentaries complete. Study skin has tear in the distal end of left wing membrane between 3rd and 4th digits, otherwise in reasonable condition.

Type locality. Roviana Island, New Georgia Group, Western Province, Solomon Islands.

Comments. Described from the holotype only. Few additional specimens of Myotis have been reported from the Solomon Islands and the species taxonomy of all Australasian Myotis needs further revision. Kitchener et al. (1995) who apparently did not examine the holotype of solomonis , suspected that Myotis from the Solomon Islands were a distinct taxon on the basis of the two specimens they examined but they referred these to M. m. moluccarum , pending a more detailed assessment. Phillips & Birney (1968) synonymized Anamygdon with Myotis .