Vespertilio caliginosus Tomes, 1859

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 : 80

Vespertilio caliginosus Tomes, 1859

Tomes, R.F. (1859) Description of six hitherto undescribed species of bats. Proceedings of the Zoological Society London, 1859: 73 [68–79].

Valid name: Myotis muricola Gray, 1846

Referred specimen: ZMB 3118, body in alcohol (in very poor condition), skull extracted, female, adult; Chota-Nagpore, Himalaya; collected by Prochnow.

Comment : In the general catalogue Peters annotated ZMB 3118 as being the original for the description (see also Peters 1866: 401). However , Tomes (1859) had described this species on the basis of a specimen supplied to him from “ India ”, no collector or more exact locality was mentioned. According to Jenkins (2004, online list of mammal types in the BMNH) the BMNH holds a “type” specimen ( BMNH 1907.1.1.512), presumably the holotype .