Vespertilio macuanus Peters 1852

Vespertilio macuanus Peters, 1852 Peters, W.C.H. (1852) Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV. in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt. Berlin, p. 61. Valid name: Nyctalus noctula (Schreber, 1774) Holotype: ZMB 3041, skin and skull,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Turni, Hendrik, Kock, Dieter
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Vespertilio
Vespertilio macuanus
Nyctalus noctula
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5134239
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5134239
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Summary:Vespertilio macuanus Peters, 1852 Peters, W.C.H. (1852) Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV. in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt. Berlin, p. 61. Valid name: Nyctalus noctula (Schreber, 1774) Holotype: ZMB 3041, skin and skull, male; Peninsula Cabaceira, Mozambique; collected by W.H.C. Peters, between 1843 and 1847. Comment: The occurrence of N. noctula has never been confirmed for tropical Africa, rendering the type locality very dubious (see Allen 1939: 92, and Simmons, 2005). The holotype agrees perfectly with Palaearctic representatives of this species and we assume an erroneous association with Peters' Mozambique collection. Published as part of Turni, Hendrik & Kock, Dieter, 2008, Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 1869 (1) on page 60, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5133648

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