Emballonura serii Flannery, 1995a [not 1994]

Mammalia 58(4): 606, fig. 2, table 1. (23 February 1995)

Common name. Seri’s Sheath-tailed Bat.

Current name. Emballonura serii Flannery, 1995a; following Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.19845 by original designation. Female adult, [Field no. FE453], skull, body in alc., frozen tissue; collected on 21 June 1988 by T. F. Flannery, L. Seri and T. Ennis; registered 23 January 1989.

Condition. Cranium and dentaries complete, soft palate retained on skull. Body in alc. has hole in left wing membrane between forearm and 5th digit.

Type locality. Matapara Cave, near Medina (2°55'S 151°23' E), New Ireland, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea (latitude mistakenly given as 2°55'N in original account) .

Paratypes. (3, by original designation).All are adult females, collection date and locality as per holotype: M.19843, skull, body in alc., frozen tissue; M.19844, body in alc., frozen tissue; M.20895, cranium without dentaries, body in alc.

Comments. Type series of four specimens. Colgan & Soheili (2008) included samples from the holotype and two paratypes (M.19843–45) in their mDNA sequencing study of lineages of emballonurids from the south-west Pacific.