Microcebus myoxinus Peters, 1852

Turni, Hendrik, 2024, Type specimens of Primates (Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zootaxa 5543 (2), pp. 151-194 : 154

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Current valid name: Microcebus myoxinus Peters, 1852

Lectotype [designated by Schwarz, 1931]: ZMB 319 (old number = An 14655), female, skin and skull; acquired in Bahia de S. Agostino [ Baie de Saint-Augustin ] Madagascar, by Peters between 1842 and 1848.

Paralectotype: ZMB 71431 (= An 14763), female, body in alcohol; acquired in Bahia de S. Agostino [ Baie de Saint-Augustin ] Madagascar, by Peters between 1842 and 1848 .

Comment: Peters (1852. p. 18) based his description on three specimens, which were at that time in the Berlin collection. However, the third paralectotype from Bombatoka [Bombetoka], Madagascar, collected by Barnard, undated, could not be found in the collection.