Pteropus capistratus Peters, 1876

Turni, Hendrik & Kock, Dieter, 2008, Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin, Zootaxa 1869 (1), pp. 1-82 : 13-14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5133934

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pteropus capistratus Peters, 1876
status

 

Pteropus capistratus Peters, 1876 View in CoL

Peters, W.C.H. (1876) Mittheilung über die Pelzrobbe von den Inseln St. Paul und Amsterdam und über die von S.M.S. Gazelle mitgebrachten Flederthiere. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876: 316 [315–319].

Valid name: Pteropus capistratus Peters, 1876

Syntypes (identified by Andersen 1912: 321): ZMB 4998 View Materials , skin, male, subadult. ZMB 4999 View Materials , skin and skull, female, subadult. Both from New Ireland, Papua-New Guinea; collector unknown; Expedition S.M.S “Gazelle” 1876 .

Comment: The New Ireland population probably represents a distinct subspecies Pteropus capistratus ennisae (see Flannery & White, 1991).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Pteropus

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