Pteropus ualanus Peters, 1883
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5133984 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787D2-8915-FFB1-FF06-8AECC3FAFD2F |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Pteropus ualanus Peters, 1883 |
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Pteropus ualanus Peters, 1883 View in CoL
Peters, W.C.H. (1883): Mittheilung über die von Hrn. Dr. Finsch von den Carolinen-Inseln eingesandten Flederhunde. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1883, 1: 1.
Valid name: Pteropus ualanus Peters, 1883
Syntypes: ZMB 5788 View Materials , ZMB 5788 View Materials a–d, and ZMB 5792 View Materials a–b (seven specimens), bodies in alcohol, skulls extracted . ZMB 5789 View Materials , body in alcohol, skull extracted, pullus . ZMB 5791 View Materials , skull . ZMB 5798 View Materials , ZMB 5808 View Materials , and ZMB 5809 View Materials (three specimens), skins and skulls. Unnumbered skull. All these specimens from “Kuschai” = Ualan [Kosrae] Id., Caroline Ids., Federal States of Micronesia; collected by O. Finsch. ZMB 86715 (= A 4065), skull (missing); “Ponape” = Pohnpei, Federal States of Micronesia; collected by O. Finsch.
Comment: According to K. Helgen (in prep.) the extinct Ponape population may be a different taxon (unnamed subspecies).
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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections) |
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