Phyllostomus spiculatus, Lichtenstein, 1823

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 : 47

Phyllostomus spiculatus [Illiger] Lichtenstein, 1823

Lichtenstein, H. (1823) Verzeichnis der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin . Berlin, p. 3 [1–118].

Valid name: Sturnira lilium (E. Geoffroy, 1810)

Lectotype (here designated): ZMB 412 , skin, skull not extracted; Sao Paulo, Brazil; collected by Sellow, between 1818 and 1823.

Comment: Carter & Dolan (1978: appendix 6, p.134) did not find a type specimen of Ph. spiculatum , although they assumed one should be at the ZMB. The present investigation identified specimen ZMB 412 as a possible type of Phyllostomus spiculatus . Lichtenstein sold off “surplus specimens” [duplicates] out of the Berlin collection. In the doublet catalogue of the year 1823 he listed at least one specimen of Phyllostomus spiculatus for the price of “2 Thaler”. It cannot be excluded that further syntypes remain somewhere else; however the available specimen ZMB 412 is at present the only known existing specimen and is therefore designated as lectotype.