Vespertilio fimbriatus Peters, 1871

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 : 57

Vespertilio fimbriatus Peters, 1871

Peters, W. C. H. (1871) In Swinhoe, R.: Catalogue of the mammals of China (south of the River Yangtse) and of the Island of Formosa. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London, 1871 [for 1870]: 617 [615–653]; London. Bats submitted to W. Peters, who supplied names and descriptions of n.sp.

Valid name: Myotis fimbriatus ( Peters, 1871)

Holotype (designated by Pohle 1943: 323): ZMB 4148 , skin and skull (extracted in 1940), male; Amoy (= Xiamen, Fujian), China; collected by Swinhoe, July 1867, donated by Swinhoe between 20 March and 14 April 1870.

Paratypes (same locality, collector and date as for the holotype): ZMB 4147 and 4149 – 4151, four unsexed skins and skulls .

Comment: Pohle (1943: 321) suggested that one of three specimens in the BMNH collected by Swinhoe, identified by Dobson (1878: 299) as “type”, on the basis of identical data to that of specimens sent by the collector to Peters, has no nomenclaturial status. Corbet & Hill (1992: 125) considered two BMNH specimens of V. fimbritatus to be paratypes. The fimbriatus “type” specimen in the BMNH was, however, purchased from Swinhoe at a date after the species name was published by Peters.