Vespertilio nanus 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 : 60

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5134253
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scientific name	Vespertilio nanus Peters, 1852
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Vespertilio nanus Peters, 1852 View in CoL

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. 63.

Valid name: Neoromicia nanus (Peters, 1852) . Note: For using nanus instead of the older name africanus (Rüppell, 1842) see Simmons (2005: 494).

Syntypes: ZMB 588 View Materials (three specimens), bodies in alcohol, skulls extracted, two females and one male, adults; Inhambane, Mozambique; collected by W.C.H. Peters, between 1843 and 1847 .

Comment: Specimens BMNH 1907.1 .4.421 (skin and skull, adult?) and 1907.1.4.422 (skin, female, adult) are identified as “cotypes”. Another syntype is in the NMW (19644, in alcohol, male, adult) .