Nycteris angolensis Peters, 1870

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 : 26

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Nycteris angolensis Peters, 1870
status

 

Nycteris angolensis Peters, 1870 View in CoL

Peters, W.C.H. (1870) Eine monographische Übersicht der Chiropterengattungen Nycteris und Atalapha . Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1870: 903 [900–914].

Valid name: Nycteris thebaica E. Geoffroy, 1818

Syntypes: ZMB 3633 View Materials , body in alcohol, skull extracted, male, juvenile; “Rio Corvea” (=?), Angola; ex Museum Lisbon . ZMB 3637 View Materials , body in alcohol, skull extracted, male; Caconda , Bibala, Namibe, Angola; ex Museum Lisbon .

Comment: Peters described this species using “different specimens” (= syntypes) but no holotype was selected. Another syntype is at BMNH (1879.1.21.2).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Nycteridae

Genus

Nycteris

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