Pteropus melanopogon var. neohibernicus Peters, 1876
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787D2-8916-FFB2-FF06-8949C061FB41 |
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Felipe |
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Pteropus melanopogon var. neohibernicus Peters, 1876 |
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Pteropus melanopogon var. neohibernicus Peters, 1876 View in CoL
Peters, W.C.H. (1876) Mittheilung über die Pelzrobbe von den Inseln St. Paul und Amsterdam und über die von S.M.S. Gazelle mitgebrachten Flederthiere. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876: 317 [315–319].
Valid name: Pteropus neohibernicus Peters, 1876
Syntypes: ZMB 4994 View Materials , skin and skull, male . ZMB 4995 View Materials , skin and skull (damaged), female. Both specimens from New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea; collected by Hüsker.
Comment: A further specimen, BMNH 1914.4 .1.1, is erroneously listed as “ type ”, but Peters (1876: 318) wrote: “Zwei Bälge, ein Männchen und ein Weibchen [two skins, a male and a female], ebenfalls aus Neu- Irland; erlegt von Hrn. Dr. Hüsker. ”
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