Saccolaimus mixtus Troughton, 1925

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 : 390

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https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7555760

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scientific name

Saccolaimus mixtus Troughton, 1925
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Saccolaimus mixtus Troughton, 1925 View in CoL

Rec. Aust. Mus. 14(4): 322, pl. xlvii–xlviii, two tables. (9 April 1925).

Common name. Papuan Sheath-tailed Bat.

Current name. Saccolaimus mixtus Troughton, 1925 ; following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Holotype. A.3257 by original designation. Male adult, body in alc., skull in situ, purchased from Kendall Broadbent and registered in November 1878. The A Register entry gives the locality as “ Port Moresby ”.

Condition. Body in alc.: fur faded, broken left humerus, tear in left wing membrane between forearm and 5th digit, tear in right wing membrane between 4th and 5th digit.

Type locality. Port Moresby district, Central Province, Papua New Guinea.

Paratypes. (2, by original designation). Details as per holotype: A.3256, sex not recorded, skull; A.3258, male, skull, study skin.

Comments. Type series of three specimens. These specimens were originally reported as “ Taphozous sp ” by Ramsay (1879b: 243). See Chimimba & Kitchener (1991) for photographs of paratype skull A.3258.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Emballonuridae

Genus

Saccolaimus

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