Phyllostoma Bennettii Gray, 1838

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 : 79

Phyllostoma Bennettii Gray, 1838

Gray, J.E. (1838) A revision of the genera of bats ( Vespertilionidae ), and the description of some new genera and species. Magazine of Zoology and Botany, 2: 483 [483–505].

Valid name: Mimon bennettii (Gray, 1838)

Referred specimens (marked with type *; Peters, 1867: 469): ZMB 3350 a–b (two specimens), bodies in alcohol, skulls extracted, females, adults; “Albina Maroni” = Albina, Marowijne river, Suriname; collected by Kappler.

Comment: Annotations in the general catalogue identify both specimens as originals of the description. Although Peters (1867: 469) compared the holotype of Phyllostoma Bennettii (in BMNH) with these ZMB specimens, ZMB 3350 a– b are not paratype specimens of Ph. Bennettii, as Gray‘s description contains no information on the collector, number of specimens or on an exact locality, except S America, and therefore no relation to the specimens collected by Kappler can be deduced from Gray’s description of the species .