FMNH 185259

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  • Bat skulls
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Different views of skull and mandible of holotype Chaerephon atsinanana, collected Farafangana: upper row, left, dorsal view of cranium; upper row, right, ventral view of cranium; and lower row, lateral view of cranium and mandible
  • Bat skulls
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Dorsal, ventral, and lateral views of adult female crania and mandibles of the holotype of Chaerephon atsinanana (left-- FMNH 185259) obtained at Farafangana and C. pumilus sensu stricto (right n++ USNM 38032) female collected at Massawa, Eritrea, which is the type locality of this species
FM Catalog: Mammals
Catalog Subset: Specimen
Scientific Name: Chaerephon atsinanana
Type Status: Holotype
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
Genus: Chaerephon
Species: atsinanana
Field #: 193619
Collector: F. H. Ratrimomanarivo
Collection No.: RHF-1060
Geography: Africa, Madagascar, Province de Fianarantsoa, 10m: Farafangana, Ecole CEG Fenoarivo. [LL]
DWc Country: Madagascar
Date Collected: 26 Apr 2005
Preparations: skull,asr,tiss
Tissue Available?: Yes
Co-ordinates Available?: Yes
Sex: Female
Sex: Female
Type Status: Holotype
EMu IRN: 2684027
OccurenceID: 8693178d-84ef-4d36-83ba-a8e18e608f4d

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