Pteropus sanctacrucis Troughton, 1930

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 : 388

Pteropus sanctacrucis Troughton, 1930

Rec. Aust. Mus. 18(1): 3. (10 November 1930).

Common name. Temotu Flying-fox.

Current name. Pteropus nitendiensis Sanborn, 1930 ; following Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.4763 by original designation. Male, Field no. 65, skull, study skin, collected on 27 July 1926, by E. Le G. Troughton and A. A. Livingstone. Registered October 1929.

Condition. Cranium and dentaries complete. Study skin with bald patch on the ventral surface and a distal membrane tear between digits 3 and 4.

Type locality. [Carlisyle Bay], Santa Cruz Island, Santa Cruz Group, Timotu Province, Solomon Islands.

Paratypes. (6, 5 by subsequent determination). All six specimens were collected by E. Le G. Troughton and A. A. Livingstone: M.4761 by original designation, female (allotype), skull, study skin, collected 18 July 1926, Trevanian Island , off Santa Cruz Island. M. 4762 , male, body in alc.; M.4764 – 65 , both males, bodies in alc.; M.4766 , female, body in alc., all four have same locality and collecting date as holotype. M.4767 , female, body in alc., south coast of Santa Cruz Island, collected 29 July 1926 .

Comments. Troughton states that he examined seven specimens from Santa Cruz Island, but did not cite registration numbers except for the holotype and allotype. There are only five additional specimens in the M Register with matching collection dates and localities, which are assumed to be the remaining five specimens examined by Troughton; we treat these as paratypes, although none are labelled as such .