Species Chalinolobus morio (J.E. Gray, 1841)

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Species Chalinolobus morio (J.E. Gray, 1841)

Chocolate Wattled Bat

Scotophilus morio Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [405].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 37.4.8.118 skin & skull, TAS.
Scotophilus australis Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [398-400, 406, 414].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not found in BMNH), Sydney and its neighbourhood, NSW; Liverpool Range, NSW; Adelaide and its vicinity, SA; Canning River, WA; Hobart, TAS.
Scotophilus microdon Tomes, R.F. 1859. Description of six hitherto undescribed species of bats. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1859: 68-79 [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84 [71]] [68].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 41.1513 ♂ skin & skull mandible only (included), SA, TAS (as Van Diemen's Land); the BMNH register records the locality of BMNH 41.1513 as South Australia.
Vespertilio muelleri Becker, L. 1860. Notes on an Australian bat, No. II. Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 4: 41-43 1 pl. [41].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, Melbourne (as Dr. Ferd. Mueller's study), VIC.
Chalinolobus signifer Dobson, G.E. 1876. Description of a new species of Chalinolobus from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 17: 289-290 [289].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 76.3.29.11 ♂ skin (wet) & skull, Peak Downs, QLD.
Type locality references:
Dobson, G.E. 1878. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xlii 567 pp. 30 pls. [250].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122 [97] (for S. morio Gray, S. australis Gray, S. microdon Tomes and C. signifer Dobson, in synonymy as Chalinolobus morio (Gray))
Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [131] (for V. muelleri Becker)

Generic Combinations

Chalinolobus morio (J.E. Gray, 1841).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)