Echymipera philipi Troughton, 1945

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 315

Echymipera philipi Troughton, 1945

Rec. Aust. Mus. 21(6): 373. (25 June 1945).

Common name. Common Echymipera .

Current name. Echymipera kalubu philipi Troughton, 1945 ; following Groves (2005c).

Holotype. M.6999 by original designation. Male, [Field no. Owi Is. No. 29], skull ( Fig. 14 ), study skin, collected by Lieutenant-Colonel Cornelius B. Philip and Major Glen M. Kohls, collection date not given, registered September 1944 .

Condition. Cranium missing right upper 1st and 2nd incisors; both dentaries complete. Study skin in good condition.

Type locality. Owi Island, Schouten Island Group, Cenderawasih (formerly Geelvink) Bay, Papua Province, Indonesia.

Paratypes. (3, 2 by subsequent determination). Same locality and collectors as holotype, all registered February 1945, collection dates not given: M.7028 by original designation, female, skull, study skin (allotype); M.7029 (two specimens), female, body in alc. with unfurred female pouch young in alc.; M.7030, male, skull, body in alc.

Comments. Troughton does not indicate the number of paratypes but implies that there are three, without citing registration numbers for two specimens. Paratypes are identified as such in Troughton’s writing on specimen tags for the three specimens listed above and a search of the register database indicates a total of four specimens of this species from Owi Island.

Figures

Figure 14. AM M.6999, holotype skull of Echymipera philipi Troughton, 1945. (Photography by Stuart Humphreys).