Nycticejus Rüppellii Peters, 1866

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

Nycticejus Rüppellii Peters, 1866

Peters, W.C.H. (1866) Über einige neue oder weniger bekannte Flederthiere. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , 1866: 21 [16–25].

Valid name: Scoteanax rueppellii Peters, 1866

Referred specimen (marked with type * by Peters): ZMB 3137 , body in alcohol, skull not extracted, female, adult; Sydney, Australia; collected by Krefft, donated by Godeffroy .

Comment: The original description mentioned only a single dry specimen (= holotype), which is in SMF (Mertens 1925: 22, SMF 4284 , leg. Becker). Peters’ catalogue annotation for ZMB 3137 should be interpreted as “typical of” and not as the designation a type specimen .