Scoteinus sanborni Troughton 1937

Scoteinus sanborni Troughton, 1937c

Aust. Zool. 8(4): 280. (12 March 1937).

Common name. Northern Broad-nosed Bat.

Current name. Scotorepens sanborni (Troughton, 1937c), following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Holotype. A.3176 by original designation. Female, skull, body in alc., purchased from Kendall Broadbent, registered November 1878. Collection date not given.

Condition. Cranium missing left zygomatic arch; cranium and dentaries otherwise complete. Body in alc.: broken left elbow area, fur slip on the dorsal surface, hole in left wing membrane between 4th and 5th digit (proximal end).

Type locality. East Cape, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.

Comments. Described from one specimen. See Kitchener & Caputi (1985) for photographs of the holotype skull, and detailed skull and external measurements. This specimen was originally entered in the A Register as “ ? Scotophilus sp ” in 1878. It was thought by Van Deusen & Koopman (1971) to be the first New Guinea record of Chalinolobus nigrogriseus (Gould, 1856), based on a pers. comm. from Troughton, who mistakenly thought that the specimen had been destroyed and evidently overlooked that it was one of his type specimens.