Hipposideros wollastoni fasensis Flannery & Colgan, 1993

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Hipposideros wollastoni fasensis Flannery & Colgan, 1993

Rec. Aust. Mus. 45(1): 52, figs 6–10, table 4. (19 March 1993).

Common name. Wollaston’s Leaf-nosed Bat.

Current name. Hipposideros wollastoni fasensis Flannery & Colgan, 1993 ; following Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.21876 by original designation. Female young adult, [Field no. FJ58], skull, body in alc., tongue in alc., frozen tissue; collected by T. F. Flannery, 26 February 1990, registered 20 June 1990.

Condition. Cranium with fracture in left parietal; both dentaries complete; soft palate retained on skull. Body in alc.: broken left forearm and humerus, hole in left wing membrane between forearm and 5th digit.

Type locality. At an alt. of 400–450 m on the hill south of the airstrip at 2Fas village (3°13'S 141°30'E), West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Comments. Described from the holotype only; we are not aware of any subsequent records of the taxon. Provisionally recognized as a full species by Helgen (2007) but retained as a subspecies here, pending formal elevation to species.