Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 94. (Budapest 2002)

Csorba, G.: Remarks on some types of the genus Rhinolophus (Mammalia, Chiroptera)

History Museum, Budapest; HZM - Harrison Institute, Sevenoaks, formerly Harrison Zoological Museum; MNB - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin; RMNH - National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie; USNM - United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington. In the case of RMNH specimens, beside the recently used inventory numbers of that Museum the JENTINK's catalogue numbers (JENTINK 1887, 1888) are also given. Every species listed by JENTINK starts with a letter 'a'; the osteological (referred to as "cat. ost.") and systematic (skin) catalogues (referred to as "cat. syst.") have independent letterings. Rhinolophus pusillus TEMMINCK, 1834 The types of R. pusillus in the RMNH, Leiden caused a lot of mental labour. DOBSON (1878) investigated the types and concluded that they were "undoubtedly specimens of R. hippos ide rus" which led to the statement that R. hipposideros should occur in Java. ANDERSEN (1905) later speculated that "an interchange of labels has taken place in that Museum". The small specimens in the Leiden Museum were always kept in glass vials from the very beginning, with a little round label glued on the cork cover (C. SMEENK pers. comm.). Needless to say, these labels may have come off, so there was always the danger of specimens becoming mislabelled or interchanged. In fact, the type series in Leiden consists of five syntypes (RMNH 35177-35181), of which three represent R. hipposideros (RMNH 35178 [= Rh. hipposideros cat. syst, b] and 35179 [= Rh. hipposideros cat. syst, c] mounted specimens, skulls intact; RMNH 35181 [= Rh. hipposideros cat. ost. a] separate skull). One of the remaining two specimens (RMNH 35177 [= Rh. hipposideros cat. syst a, cat. ost. b]) consists of a skull of R. pusillus and a mounted skin of R. hipposideros', the another one (RMNH 35180 [= Rh. hipposideros cat. syst, d] mounted with skull intact) is with no doubt R. pusillus. These facts explain why DOBSON (1878) and JENTINK (1887) referred R. pusillus as a synonym of R. hipposideros, and make it clear that ANDERSEN (1905) was right when accepted TEMMINCK'S statement that the types of R. pusillus were brought back from Java. Since the cranial characters are widely used features in the group, from the syntypes representing genuine R. pusillus the RMNH 35177 specimen (a cleaned skull) is designated herein as lectotype; the skin of R. hipposideros bearing the same number is regarded as mis-labelled. The RMNH 35180 mounted specimen is the paralectotype of R. pusillus. The shape of the rostral profile of R. pusillus was desribed by CORBET and HILL (1992) as being nearly straight, almost horizontal (contrary to the up-