Nyctophilus nebulosus Parnaby, 2002b

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 : 398

Nyctophilus nebulosus Parnaby, 2002b

Aust. Mammal. 23(2): 116, figs 1–5; table 1. ( 30 April 2002).

Common name. New Caledonia Long-eared Bat.

Current name. Nyctophilus nebulosus Parnaby, 2002b ; following Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.23730 by original designation. Male adult, Field no. FP1, skull, body in alc., separate intact penis in alc., frozen tissue; collected 10 May 1991 by T. F. Flannery and registered in 16 May 1991.

Condition. Cranium and dentaries complete. Body in alc. in good condition.

Type locality. 150 m north of the Station d’Altitude car park, ( 22°10'37"S 166°30'12"E, alt. 430m), Southwestern slopes of Mt Koghis, Nouméa, South Province, New Caledonia .

Paratypes. ( 2, by original designation). Bodies in alc.: M.23731 , adult female, frozen tissue, collected 10 May 1991 on Mt Koghis by T. F. Flannery; M.21587 , adult female, captured 13 May 1990 by Walter Boles , Wayne Longmore and Ross Sadlier on Mt Koghis at the same site as the holotype .

Comments. Type series of three specimens. Photograph of a live animal given by Flannery (1995c). No further records appear to have been reported of this species other than Hand & Grant-Mackie (2012), who found subfossil remains in a cave on the southwestern coast of the main island.