Pteropus melanopogon var. aruensis, Peters, 1867

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 : 16

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scientific name	Pteropus melanopogon var. aruensis
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Pteropus melanopogon var. aruensis View in CoL (et keyensis ) Peters, 1867

Peters, W. C. H. (1867a) Über die Flederhunde, Pteropi, und insbesondere über die Arten der Gattung Pteropus s. s. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1867: 330 [319–333].

Valid name: Pteropus aruensis Peters, 1867

Syntypes: ZMB 4703 View Materials , body in alcohol, skull extracted, male; Wokam , Aru Ids., Moluccas, Indonesia; collected by O. Beccari, between 1865 and 1867 . ZMB 4962 View Materials , skin and skull (damaged), male, adult; [Wonumbai] Aru Ids. , Moluccas, Indonesia; collected by H.A. Bernstein, 1863, ex RMNH. ZMB 88608 and ZMB 88610 , skulls, males; both specimens ex RMNH.

Comment: ZMB 88608 and ZMB 88610 had very old labels (presumably originals), which appear to have been overlooked by Matschie (1899, p. 14). Dobson (1878: 45) indicated specimens named by Peters in the RMNH. Otherwise Andersen (1912: 243) identified ZMB 4962 as “ type ” (male adult, mounted, skull in situ, from Bernstein ex RMNH) and ZMB 4703 (leg. Beccari) as “the only other specimen”.