Rhinolophus borneensis PETERS, 1861

Csorba, G., 2002, Remarks on some types of the genus Rhinolophus (Mammalia, Chiroptera), Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 94, pp. 217-226 : 220-221

Rhinolophus borneensis PETERS, 1861

The confusing history of the name borneensis was reviewed in detail by A N ­ DERSEN (1905) who described it as "accumulation of errors and wrong identifications" which resulted in the fact that " Rh. borneensis has for many years been completely confused not only with several more or less closely related species, but also

with the widely different Rh. minor " (= R. pusillus ). One of the possible reason of the confusion should be the mis-matching of labels and/or skulls in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (MNB). There are two skulls (in very bad condition) in the type collection of MNB (2533.1 and 2533.2) which certainly represent specimens of R. borneensis , although both labelled as " Rhinolophus minor , type, Labuan, Java ". On the other hand, the type of R. minor is in the BM (NH). Since the type lo-

cality of R. borneensis is also Labuan (the Malayan island off Borneo, not in Java ), and according to PETERS (1871) its type is deposited in the Berlin Museum, the MNB 2533.1 and 2533.2 specimens are undoubtedly the mis-labelled types of R. borneensis .