Melonycteris fardoulisi fardoulisi 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 : 381

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scientific name	Melonycteris fardoulisi fardoulisi Flannery, 1993b
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Melonycteris fardoulisi fardoulisi Flannery, 1993b View in CoL View at ENA

Rec.Aust. Mus 45(1): 68, figs 7, 10, table 3. (19 March 1993).

Common name. Fardoulis’s Blossom Bat.

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

Holotype. M.18833 by original designation. Male adult, [Field no. FD43], study skin, skull, [skinned body in al.], collected by T. F. Flannery, 16 November 1987; registered 26 April 1988.

Condition. Cranium and dentaries complete. Study skin complete.

Type locality. Near Sesena Village ([10]°31'S] 162°05'E, alt. 100–200 m), Makira Island, Makira-Ulawa Province, Solomon Islands. The latitude 8°31'S given for Sesena village in the original account stems from an incorrect entry in the AM database GoogleMaps .

Paratypes. (4, by original designation). M.18834, subadult male, skull, study skin, skinned body in alc., collected 17 November 1987; M.18849, young adult female, skull, study skin, [skinned body in alc.] collected, 17 Nov. 1987; M.18848, juvenile female, skull, body in alc.; M.20112, juvenile female, body in alc. Other data for all four as for the holotype.

Comments. Five specimens in the type series. The sequencing study of Pulvers & Colgan (2007) support recognition of the four lineages of M. fardoulisi treated as subspecies by Flannery.