| Publication Type: | Book |
| Year of Publication: | 1989 |
| Authors: | C. Ibáñez, Fernández R. |
| Number of Pages: | 54 |
| Publisher: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales |
| City: | Madrid |
| Keywords: | Africa, Asia, Cabreramops aequatorianus, Chiroptera, Dobsonia remota, Europe, Hipposideridae, Hipposideros caffer tephrus, Molossidae, museum collections, Pteropodidae, Rhinolophidae, Rhinolophus anderseni, systematics, taxonomy, type specimens |
| Abstract: | This paper shows the results of a revision of the bats collection held in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, which consists of over 1300 specimens shared by at least 144 species belonging to 11 families. The more interesting specimens are emphasized, those being without doubt the types of the 17 species and subspecies described by Angel Cabrera using the material from this Museum. Of them, they are actually considered as valid names Dobsonia remota, Rhinolophus anderseni, Hipposideros caffer tephrus and Cabreramops aequatorianus although the first species offers some doubts. Their holotypes and paratypes are preserved, at least partially. A careful study of the different groups could make possible the validity of some other names like Rhinolophus carpetanus, R. f. obscurus, Pipistrellus p. rnediterraneus and P. savii ochromixtus. The rest of them are included under synonymy in a rather definitive way. |