Phyllorhina gracilis Peters, 1852

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 : 38

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787D2-8923-FF87-FF06-8B24C330FD51

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scientific name

Phyllorhina gracilis Peters, 1852
status

 

Phyllorhina gracilis Peters, 1852

Peters, W.C.H. (1852) Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV. in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt. Berlin, p. 36.

Valid name: Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall, 1846)

Holotype: ZMB 364 View Materials , skin and skull and ZMB 85624 (old number = An 16311), skeleton, male; Tete, Mozambique; collected by W.C.H. Peters, between 1843 and 1847.

Comment: To verify the valid use of the name Hipposideros caffer for P. gracilis Peters, 1852 , we remeasured ZMB 364: forearm length = 43mm, C-M 3 = 6.1mm, Condylo-canine-length = 15.3mm, max. skull length = 17.8mm.

ZMB

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Hipposideridae

Genus

Phyllorhina

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