Nyctophilus bifax Thomas, 1915a

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 : 397

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Nyctophilus bifax Thomas, 1915a View in CoL View at ENA

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 8) 15: 496. (1 May 1915).

Common name. Eastern Long-eared Bat.

Current name. Nyctophilus bifax Thomas, 1915a ; following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Paratypes. (4, by subsequent determination). M.557–58, females, bodies in alc.; M.560, male, body in alc.; all three from Herberton district, north Qld, collected by Cairn and Grant, registered in December 1889; M.2547, male, skull, body in alc., Cloncurry, Qld, registered 5 December 1914 from the “old collection”, collector not given.

Comments. Thomas states that his description was based on “about 20 specimens ” from five localities: Herberton (type locality), Cape York, Cooktown , Cloncurry and Torres Strait Islands. Of eight specimens on loan from the AM to Thomas during preparation of his revision, four were registered in the BMNH, including the holotype M.559, now BM 1915.3.13.3 (P. Jenkins, BMNH, pers. comm. 18 February 2014). The remaining four specimens listed above were identified as N. bifax by Thomas and returned to the AM and are considered to be paratypes. The original M Register entry for the holotype (formerly M.559) entered in December 1889 is “bat Herberton district, Q. collected by Cairn and Grant, spirit” .