Macrotus minor Gundlach, 1864

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 : 45

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1
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scientific name	Macrotus minor Gundlach
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Macrotus minor Gundlach View in CoL in Peters, 1864

Gundlach, J. (1864) In Peters: Über einige neue Säugethiere ( Mormops , Macrotus , Vesperus , Molossus, Capromys ), Amphibien ( Platydactylus, Otocryptis, Euprepes, Ungalia, Dromicus, Tropidontus, Xenodon, Hylodes ) und Fische ( Sillago, Sebastes, Channa, Myctophum, Carassius, Barbus, Capoeta, Poecilia, Saurenchelys, Leptocephalus ). Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1864: 382 [381–399].

Valid name: Macrotus waterhousii Gray, 1843

Holotype (marked by Peters with a type *): ZMB 2831 View Materials , skin, skull not extracted, male, adult; [western] Cuba; collected by J. Gundlach.

Comment: The original description contains measurements of one specimen only. Presumably the specimen was sent to ZMB by Gundlach after the description was published, since parts of Gundlach’s collection were taken to Germany by Mr. Sezekorn .