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• Vesp. [ertilio] timoriensis Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. 1806. Sur le genre et les espèces de vespertilion, l'un des genres de la famille des chauve-souris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 8: 187-205 pls 46-48 [publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. 1914. An attempt at fixation of the dates of issue of the Parts of the publications of the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris, 1802-1850. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 365-368 [366]] [200] [nomen dubium; considered a nomen dubium by Parnaby (2009), pending further study].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 884 skin (skull not found in MNHP; specimen MHNP 217 of Goodwin, loc. cit. is specimen MNHP 884), Timor (as l'île de Timor).

  Type locality references:

  Desmarest, [A.G.] 1819. Vespertilion. pp. 461–481 in, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, a l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouv. Édn. Paris : Deterville 35 pp. [481]; Temminck, C.J. 1840. Sur les cheiroptères vespertilionides formant les genres Nyctice, Vespertilion et Furie. pp. 141–272 pls 47–59. Leiden : C.C. van der Hoek Vol. 2. [publication date established from Husson, A.M. 1962. The bats of Suriname. Zoologische Verhandelingen 58: 1–282 pls 1–30 [276]] (Timor as the type locality has not been regarded by some authors as being beyond doubt); Goodwin, R.E. 1979. The bats of Timor: systematics and ecology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 163: 73-122 [78].

  Secondary source:

   Parnaby, H.E. 2009. A taxonomic review of Australian Greater Long-eared Bats previously known as Nyctophilus timoriensis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) and some associated taxa. The Australian Zoologist 35(1): 39-81.
• Barbastellus novaehollandiae Gray, J.E. 1831. Descriptions of some new genera and species of bats. pp. 37-38 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würtz & Co. Vol. 1. [38] [the Linnaean Society of London donated to the BMNH, or sold, many of its zoological specimens in the middle of the last century, see Anon. 1863. June 4, 1863. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7: li–lii; Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122 [94] include Barbastellus novaehollandiae Gray in Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach, 1821, but it seems unlikely that the holotype of B. novaehollandiae was seen by them and their identification of it as N. geoffroyi might not be correct; B. novaehollandiae is placed in Nyctophilus Leach, 1821 by Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 5 Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. because Gray loc. cit. includes it in the same genus as Barbastellus pacificus Gray, 1831, a form correctly placed by Iredale & Troughton loc. cit. in Nyctophilus].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Australia (as New Holland)
  Comment: formerly in LS, not found in BMNH.

  Secondary source:

   Anon. 1863. June 4, 1863. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 7: li-lii; 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; 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].

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