Epomophorus crypturus 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 : 8

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5133883
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scientific name	Epomophorus crypturus Peters, 1852
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Epomophorus crypturus 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. 26.

Valid name: Epomophorus gambianus (Ogilby, 1835) ssp. crypturus (Peters, 1852) fide Bergmans (1988, 1997), Boulay and Robbins (1989) and Koopman (1993 a).

Lectotype (designated by Andersen 1912: 537): ZMB 10080 (formerly ZMB 553 View Materials ), body in alcohol, skull extracted, female, adult; “Tette” = Tete, Mozambique; collected by W.C.H. Peters, between 1843 and 1847.

Paralectotypes (same locality, collector and date as for the lectotype) : ZMB 10018-10020 View Materials , bodies in alcohol, skulls extracted . ZMB 10078 (skull) . ZMB 10081 (old number = 355), body in alcohol, skull extracted .