Vesperus tenuipinnis Peters, 1872

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 : 66

Vesperus tenuipinnis Peters, 1872

Peters, W.C.H. (1872) Mittheilung über neue Flederthiere ( Phyllorhina micropus, Harpyiocephalus Huttonii , Murina grisea , Vesperugo micropus , Vesperus (Marsipolaemus) albigularis , Vesperus propinquus , tenuipinnis ) Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1872: 263 [256–263].

Valid name: Neoromicia tenuipinnis ( Peters, 1872)

Holotype: ZMB 4096 (missing), female, adult; “ Guinea ” [= western Africa ]; donated by Schlegel.

Comment: Kock (1969: 162) explaned that the type locality quoted by Ellerman et al. (1953: 77, Kuilu River, Congo [B]) is an unjustified assumption.