Pipistrellus wattsi Kitchener, Caputi & Jones, 1986

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 : 399

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scientific name	Pipistrellus wattsi Kitchener, Caputi & Jones, 1986
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Pipistrellus wattsi Kitchener, Caputi & Jones, 1986 View in CoL View at ENA

Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 12(4): 472, figs 5f, 6f, 7, 9, 13, 18; tables 1 and 3. (21 May 1986).

Common name. Watts’s Pipistrelle.

Current name. Pipistrellus wattsi Kitchener, Caputi & Jones, 1986 ; following Simmons (2005).

Paratype. M.3815 by original designation. Male, skull, body in alc., penis removed, neither penis nor baculum located, [Baro Dobo], Rigo (9°48'S 147°34'E), Central Province, Papua New Guinea, [presented by A. C. English, registered December 1926].

Comments. Types series of seven specimens. Holotype and four paratypes are in ANWC, one paratype in the MV. See fig. 5 of Kitchener et al. (1986) for a scanning electron micrograph image of the glans penis of M.3815.

References

Kitchener, D. J., N. Caputi, and B. Jones. 1986. Revision of the Australo-Papuan Pipistrellus and of Falsistrellus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 12 (2): 435 - 495.

Simmons, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, pp. 312 - 529. Baltimore, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press.