Hipposideros diadema reginae Troughton, 1937c

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 : 391

Hipposideros diadema reginae Troughton, 1937c

Aust. Zool. 8(4): 275. (12 March 1937).

Common name. Diadem Leaf-nosed Bat.

Current name. Hipposideros diadema reginae Troughton, 1937c ; following Jackson & Groves (2015), who note that reginae might warrant species rank.

Holotype. M.1243 by original designation. Male, skull ( Fig. 53 ), body in alc., purchased from Geo Hislop [= George Hislop], registered November 1897, collection date not given.

Condition. Cranium and dentaries in good condition. Body in alc. faded, fur slip on abdominal area and lower back, skin missing from hind limbs.

Type locality. Bloomfield River, Cooktown area, northern Qld, Australia.

Paratypes. (2, by original designation). PA.139, sex indeterminate, skin mount, skull in situ; PA.140, female (allotype), body in alc., year of collection not recorded for either specimen. The original entry by Palmer in c. 1878 for both was “Rhinolophus nov sp.” from “Cardwell”, [north Qld], donated by E. P. Ramsay.

Comments. Type series apparently of three specimens. An entry in the A Register for June 1875 (before numbers were assigned to individual specimens) of “1 Rhinolophus nov sp.” from Cardwell donated by E. P. Ramsay was later registered by Palmer as PA.139, and indicates that Ramsay believed that the specimen was an unnamed species.

Figures

Figure 53. AM M.1243, holotype skull of Hipposideros diadema reginae Troughton, 1937c. (Photography by Sally Cowan).