Cynonycteris torquata Dobson, 1878

Turni, Hendrik & Kock, Dieter, 2008, Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin, Zootaxa 1869 (1), pp. 1-82 : 77

Cynonycteris torquata Dobson, 1878

Dobson, G. E. (1878) Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Trustees of the British Museum. London. 76 [1–567].

Valid name: Myonycteris torquata (Dobson, 1878)

Referred specimens (marked with type *): ZMB 6757- 6760 , bodies in alcohol, skulls not extracted, male, female and pulli; “Bismarckburg” [= Yegue], Togo; collected by Büttner, probably in 1890–1891 .

Comment: Although Matschie (1893: 168; 1899: 64) mentioned the locality for the collection of the type specimens, no reference was made to any of the specimens. Dobson (1878) designated a male in alcohol as [holo-] type ( BMNH 1866.1.20.4; see Andersen 1912: 581) . Since ZMB 6757 – 6770 were collected by Büttner in 1890/1891, many years after the species description, they cannot be types .