Nyctimene bougainville Troughton 1936

Nyctimene bougainville Troughton, 1936a

Rec. Aust. Mus. 19(5): 349. (7 April 1936).

Common name. Solomons Tube-nosed Bat.

Current name. Unresolved. A distinct species, Nyctimene bougainville Troughton, 1936a according to Flannery (1995c); but a subspecies of N. vizcaccia Thomas, 1914a (i.e. N. vizcaccia bougainville Troughton, 1936a) according to Bonaccorso (1998) and Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.5787 by original designation. Male, list No. 156, skull (Fig. 48), study skin, collected and presented by J. B. Poncelet, registered on 27 December 1934, collection date not provided.

Condition. Cranium complete. Left dentary with hole in the ascending ramus, right dentary complete. Study skin, faded.

Type locality. Buin, southern Bougainville Island, North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea.

Paratypes. (10, 9 by subsequent determination). All from Buin, Bougainville, collected by J. B. Poncelet in 1934, collection date not recorded: M.5597, female, skull, study skin; M.5784, male body in alc.; M.5785 (by original designation), female (allotype), skull, study skin; M.5786, male, skull, study skin; M.5788, female, skull, study skin; M.5789, male, body in alc.; M.5790, female, body in alc.; M.5791, male, body in alc.; M.5832–33, males, study skins and skulls.

Comments. Troughton indicates a type series of 12 specimens but did not cite registration numbers other than for the holotype and allotype. He states “total of twelve 8 males and 4 males ” but this should be 8 males and 4 females, judging from candidate specimens. The nine specimens above, in addition to the allotype, are not marked as paratypes but the original specimen labels and original alcohol jar labels have been replaced. They are here identified as paratypes as they are the only specimens with matching locality and collection dates. A further specimen listed as a paratype in AM exchange documents, M.5792 male, is indicated as having been sent to MCZ in 1938.